THE COMPOSITION OF MIND 



elements rise into the foreground of conscious- 

 ness, — though they are present as psychical 

 states, as is shown by the fact that the going out 

 of the pipe or the failure of the clock to strike 

 is noticed; yet I hQCome conscious of them, in the 

 ordinary sense of the word, " only when they 

 pass a certain degree of intensity," as when a 

 child overhead falls on the floor, or when the 

 shriek and rumble of a passing railway train are 

 added to the confused mass of outdoor noises ; 

 "and only then can I be said to experience" 

 these feelings " as sensations." But when a 

 psychical state rises into the foreground of con- 

 sciousness and becomes known as a sensation, 

 as when my finger happens to touch the heated 

 pipe -bowl, then "I not only contemplate the 

 afl^ection as an afi^ection of myself — as a state 

 through which my consciousness is passing or 

 has passed — but I also contemplate it as ex- 

 isting in a certain part of my body — as stand- 

 ing in certain relations of position. I perceive 

 where it is." The close relationship between 

 sensation and perception is illustrated by this 

 example : nevertheless psychology here distin- 

 guishes between two portions of the mental act. 

 Though in the practical experience there is no 

 separation between the two, yet analysis enables 

 us to distinguish between the consciousness 

 of the painful feeling and the consciousness of 

 the presence of the heated object which causes 



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