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be called telegraphic signals ; and these three tekmeria become, 

 for the time, a part of that fluctuating group of thoughts which is 

 my mind. The advent of these perceptions within that group 

 implies that events competent to cause them have occurred in the 

 universe beyond. 



What has really happened is, that some of the auta of the 

 sense-compelling universe have been operating upon one another 

 and have produced extensive changes — changes which may have 

 affected the auta themselves or their relations and operations. Of 

 a very wide-spread effect some small outlying portions have filtered 

 as far as to my mind — to my little group of auta — through certain 

 narrow and tortuous channels, my senses. They are thus tekmeria, 

 signs to me that events are occurring beyond myself. 



Now, the tekmeria, as I experience them when an auto acts 

 on me through my senses, are more than mere sensations. To 

 enable me to see this, it is only necessary for me to direct my 

 attention to the remarkable judgments about space relations which 

 have annexed themselves to my sensations. When I hurt my 

 foot and when I hurt my elbow there is a difference in the sensa- 

 tions ; and this difference my trained and assisted ' mind has 

 come to translate into the perception of a space relation between 

 these two sensations and between them and others. Thus, the 

 first pain is felt as a pain in the foot, i.e. in or about a certain 

 position in space; the second pain I similarly localise. So, also, 

 with other sensations when they have come to be transformed into 

 perceptions. The red which I now see in each coal of the fire is a 

 sensation of colour which seems to me of a certain shape and size, 

 and at a certain distance from muscular sensations which I feel at 

 the same time, viz. the sensation of turning my head towards the 

 fire, of converging my eyes in succession upon different parts of 

 it, the sensation of now and then winking," and the sensation of 

 making and maintaining the focal adjustment of my eyes : all of 

 which latter sensations appear to me to be located elsewhere, viz. 



1 Assisted by that part of the activity of the onto-brain which goes on without my 

 being conscious of it. (See foot-note, p. 492.) 



2 I mention winking, because in my own case, and probably in the case of other 

 men, the sensations which I experience when winking, and for a brief time afterwards, 

 are a conspicuous element in the totality of sensations which furnish me with the dis- 

 tinction between here and there in space. 



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