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come in the ultimate resort. Consciousness is the 

 primary attribute of mind : we begin with knowledge. 

 Evolutionism is again at fault. It cannot build up 

 mind without a primal constituent which may be 

 brought into correlation with the physical forces of 

 the cosmos. Mind, conscious of itself, rejects as 

 illusive and unreal as a mere creature of imagination 

 the unit whose composition into ever more complex 

 modes is to exhibit the law of the formation of mind 

 and the history of the growth of thought : but if the 

 unit of consciousness be discarded, the edifice into 

 which it has been so laboriously built up, disappears 

 with it. 



SECTION IV. 

 THE RELATIONS OF FEELINGS. 



Let us grant the evolutionist his unit of conscious- 

 ness and accept his hypothesis that feeling and waves 

 of molecular motion in the central ganglion are inner 

 and outer faces of the same, and let us inquire how 

 he proposes to build up mind out of these materials. 



" The proximate components of mind are," on his 

 doctrine, " of two broadly contrasted kinds Feelings 



and the Relations between feelings Each feeling, 



as we here define it, is any portion of consciousness 

 which occupies a place sufficiently large to give it a 



perceivable individuality A relation between 



feelings is, on the contrary, characterized by occupy- 



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