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see. These others have learned the meaning through 

 the sense of touch. Gradually, in babyhood, early 

 childhood, etc., they have by repeated experiences 

 become habituated to connecting the qualities per- 

 ceived by touch with the entities indicated by 

 lights, shadows, colors, revealed to them by sight. 



The same lesson is taught by observing very 

 young babies, who as eagerly grab at knives, needles, 

 and wire brushes, etc., as they reach for the moon 

 to which they are equally attracted by seeing them; 

 who strike eagerly at hard, sharp, rough objects per- 

 ceived by sight, only to lacerate their tender hands 

 and fingers; who gaily and on purpose bring their 

 delicate bodies into collision with objects seen and 

 thus severely injure themselves. The experience, 

 the knowledge derived from contact is lacking and 

 sight cannot teach the nature of size, form, quality, 

 etc. 



A little introspective analysis of the conceptions 

 brought into consciousness by seeing things teaches 

 the same lesson. These conceptions are found to be 

 more or less intricate compounds of anticipations 

 and recollections of impressions made by contact 

 with the things seen. 1 



How much sense of touch do the creatures below 



1 That newly born creatures find the teats or breasts without 



Erevious touch, only proves that the natural attraction, or possi- 

 ly the attraction that is set up by smell, is sufficient to guide 

 them in the right direction, but it does not imply in the least that 

 this yields any knowledge whatsoever of the thing thus sought 

 and found. It is merely the satisfaction of a primary impulse 

 by direct attraction. 



