CONSCIOUSNESS AND ITS POWEKS. 19 



CHAPTEE II. 



Consciousness as the primary perceptive faculty of our Being Its 

 contact with reality and with all our impressions and sensations 

 of reality Eye and Ear more subject to influence from simulated 

 impressions than the other senses Touch and Taste possess more 

 positive powers and means of accuracy Smell intermediate in 

 point of power Bishop Berlceley and the Eye Not the Eye that 

 requires education from experience,butthe Consciousness The Eye 

 perfect from the first Difference between the Consciousness of man 

 and of other animals Difference between instinct and reason 

 TJieSeat of Sensation Misapprehensions as to it Consciousness 

 moves throur/h our bodies Capable of extension on surfaces 

 Consciousness of space Action of the senses not necessary to 

 Consciousness in them Power of Consciousness over the faculties 

 Pleasure and Pain Attention Thought Memory. 



IN the preceding chapter let us venture to hope it has 

 been proved to the satisfaction of even the most general 

 reader, who is at all a thinker, that CONSCIOUSNESS, the 

 great primary perceptive power and faculty of our Being, 

 is actually in contact not only with all we know with all 

 the impressions with which external nature or reality 

 affects us but also with all the channels, senses, powers, 

 or faculties, material or immaterial, organic or inorganic, 

 with which we are endowed as means of knowing or 

 receiving impressions, real or imaginary, at all times when 

 we are conscious of those impressions : and also that when- 

 ever touch, or actual contact with anything, is necessary 

 to the sensation with which we are impressed by it, our 

 consciousness is present in the act of contact, and, as such, 

 is the only means by which we are aware of that contact^ 

 or receive any impression or sensation from it 



