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" inward," from rcceptual, or " outward," self-consciousness 

 was a gradual process ; that its birth in the former is not 

 merely a matter of inference — overpowering though this 

 inference be, — but a matter of actual fact which is recorded 

 in the archives of Language itself; and, therefore, that the 

 central question upon which the whole of the present treatise 

 has been engaged cannot any longer be regarded as an open 

 question. It has been closed, part by part, as the witness 

 of philology has verified, stage by stage, the results of our 

 psychological analysis ; and now, eventually, the verification 

 has extended to the central core of the matter, revealing in 

 all its naked simplicity the one decisive fact, that in the 

 childhood of the world, no less than in that of the man, we 

 may see the fundamental change from sense to thought : in 

 the one as in the other do we behold that — 



" As he grows he gathers much, 

 And learns the use of ' I,' and ' me,* 

 And finds ' I am not what I see. 

 And other than the things I touch.' 



'* So rounds he to a separate mind 



From whence clear memory may begin. 

 As thro' the frame that binds him in 

 His isolation grows defined." 



