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mentation or bodily Assimilation, which, how- 

 ever, the same center controls. The object 

 now begins to be assimilated to the Psyche 

 directly, not to the Organism one begins to 

 know. Touch is the Sense of immediate con- 

 tact with the external object, and varies much 

 in different parts of the body. Next we have 

 Taste and Smell, which sense the object dis- 

 solved in liquid or air, but still in contact with 

 special organs of the body. Finally Hearing 

 and Siglit are Senses of the object at a dis- 

 tance, but taken up through waves of air or 

 light. Theoretic, constructive, ideal Senses 

 they have been named from this attribute. 



Thus the- realm of the Five Senses with 

 their sensations concludes the process of the 

 Organism as self-directed, starting from the 

 Brain and reaching through the Nerves to 

 the outer world and then through the Nerves 

 returning to the Brain. Such is the cycle of 

 organic self-direction which, however, is but 

 a stage of the larger cycle of Assimilation, 

 which cycle, beginning with its immediate act 

 of biting and digesting food, winds up with 

 assimilating the object ideally and at a dis- 

 tance as in sense of sight. Thus we conceive 

 the assimilative Process to extend from swal- 

 lowing the object to knowing it from a real 

 to an ideal Assimilation the latter returning 

 to the world not for physical but mental food, 

 perchance to find the Psyche therein. 



