EXCURSIONS OF AN EVOLUTIONIST 



cannot by any possibility become, objects in my 

 consciousness." In the very act of inferring that 

 you have feelings like mine, some of which you 

 class as objective, and call the outer worldj 

 while others you class as subjective, in the 

 very act of inferring this I recognize these in- 

 ferred feelings of yours as something outside 

 of myself, as something which is not a part of 

 myself and never could be. These inferred ex- 

 istences Clifford calls ejects, " things thrown out 

 of my consciousness, to distinguish them from 

 objects , things presented in my consciousness, 

 phenomena." My conception of you is " a rough 

 picture of the whole aggregate of my conscious- 

 ness, under imagined circumstances like yours ; " 

 and this conception unlike my conception of 

 the moon, or of your face implies the exist- 

 ence of something that can never in any way 

 become a part of my consciousness. Your face, 

 while I am looking at you, is an object in my 

 consciousness; but your consciousness can 

 never be an object in mine, it is an eject, 

 something entirely outside of my consciousness. 

 And so, too, your thoughts and feelings, the 

 objects in your mind, are to me ejects. 



Now my belief in the existence of ejects af- 

 fects essentially my conception of objects. As 

 a simple object, the table is but a group of my 

 states of consciousness ; but when I speak to 

 you of the table, I infer the existence in you of 

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