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carefully observe that he might know them again, but 

 having too many objects to learn a1 once, he forgot many 

 of them. Having forgotten which was the cat, and which 

 was the dog, he was ashamed to ask, but catching the cat, 

 (which he knew by feeling), he was observed to look at her 

 steadfastly, and then setting her down, said : ' So puss, I 

 shall know you another time.' We thought he soon knew 

 what pictures were, that were shown to him, but we found 

 afterwards, that we were mistaken ; about two months 

 after he was couched, he discovered they represented 

 solid bodies, when to that time he considered them as 

 only parti-coloured plains, or surfaces diversified, with 

 a variety of paints ; but even then, he was no less sur- 

 prised, expecting the pictures would feel like the things 

 the} 7 represented, and was amazed when he found those 

 parts, which by their light and shadow appeared round 

 and uneven, felt only flat like the rest, and asked which 

 was the lying sense, — the feeling or seeing." 



In commenting on the above case, Mr. Romanes sums 

 up the matter by adding : 



" Meanwhile it is enough to remember, that the case 

 proves the utility of all our visual perceptions to depend 

 upon the ingredient of mental inference, which is supplied 

 by habitual association ; and, of course, we cannot doubt, 

 that the same is true of perceptions yielded by other 

 senses." 



In pondering on the issues which such a statement 

 involves, one is led into new paths of conjecture, and these, 

 in their turn, point to many possibilities, which may in the 

 future become realized facts. 



For instance, it proves that all real education must start 

 from within. That, on the education of the qualities of 

 mind, depends the very appearance of the world in which we 



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