292 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [NS., XIV, 
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Causes of Perception. 
7 causes be perception are the following :— 
—A union of the mind with the tactual surface and the 
i sal While a person is in deep sleep 
sess oe ities is produced i in him no knowledge 
: as there is then a union oe his min 
with the soul alone but not with the tactual surface. The 
mind abides at that time near the heart in an intestine called 
pericardium which is without a tactual surface. In recollect- 
ing a thing our mind is in union with both the tactual surface 
and the soul. 
.—A union of the mind with the senses and an inter- 
course of the senses with their objects, 
e.g., in the perception of a colour there 
is a union of our mind with the eye 
which is in intercourse with the colour. 
ortionate extension of the 
Special — of percep- objects of sense, that is, the objects must 
e of infinite extension as ether, oF 
The ether 
ferred, the former being the locus of 
sound, and the latter the final partieu- 
of things. 
4.—An obviousness or Sw form of an object of sense, 
a colour, if it is to be parce 
: a heated fryin is not perceptible. 
Special causes of visual 5.—A ele pernpar a of 3 with 
ception. the object of sense, e.g. a pot, ! t is : 
be perceptible, must hate Pificient pit 
on its front-part rather than on its bae 
art. 
6.—Absence of obstacles, ¢&%- — 
much proximity or too much distance, 
often obstructive of our perception. 
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The Ato ind. 
The senses arise. se instrumentality of which we at 
ceive colour, sound, odo our, savour and touch, are the eye, 
nose, tongue and tactual surface respectively. The sense which 
Speen as an instrumen ur perception of pleasure) ogi ; 
esire, aversion, intellect and volition, is the mind W which 
