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culation by a species of Intuition — that is to say, 

 without any consciousness of the process by which 

 that result is made apparent to the mind. This 

 is not a proof that there is no process, but only 

 that it is a process gone through as a machine 

 goes through a process — that is, according to its 

 own pre-adjusted laws of Motion. Perhaps, in- 

 deed, this process may not be different in kind 

 from the process by which the average mind 

 reaches the most elementary of arithmetical truths. 

 The product of one and one, or of two and two, 

 may be self-evident to all of us only in the same 

 way in which the product of a long series of 

 figures may be self- evident to minds with an 

 abnormal gift of the arithmetical faculty. Thus 

 the distinction breaks down between self-evi- 

 dent truths and truths which are not self-evi- 

 dent. A truth may be self-evident to one mind 

 which is not self-evident to another, but may re- 

 quire, on the contrary, a laborious process of veri- 

 fication. And does not this, again, lead us to see 

 how entirely dependent are the phenomena of 

 Mind upon the power of special Faculties, and how 

 this power is itself dependent on the Adjustments 



