﻿ATTENDING 
  THE 
  EXERCISE 
  OF 
  THE 
  SENSES. 
  533 
  

  

  means 
  only 
  " 
  that 
  simpler 
  and 
  more 
  refined 
  Idealism, 
  which 
  views 
  in 
  ideas 
  only 
  

   modifications 
  of 
  the 
  mind 
  itself," 
  i. 
  e., 
  only 
  what 
  Dr 
  Brown, 
  in 
  one 
  passage 
  

   already 
  quoted, 
  regarded 
  the 
  ideas 
  of 
  Berkeley, 
  viz., 
  as 
  a 
  metaphorical 
  way 
  of 
  

   expressing 
  acts 
  or 
  states 
  of 
  the 
  mind 
  ; 
  in 
  which 
  sense 
  Dr 
  Reid, 
  as 
  we 
  have 
  

   already 
  seen, 
  said 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  object 
  to 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  term, 
  although 
  he 
  preferred 
  

   another 
  phraseology 
  ; 
  and 
  using 
  it 
  in 
  that 
  sense, 
  we 
  have 
  seen 
  that 
  his 
  argument 
  

   against 
  Hume 
  and 
  Berkeley 
  is 
  independent 
  of 
  any 
  objection 
  to 
  the 
  term. 
  

  

  Dr 
  Reid 
  goes 
  no 
  farther 
  in 
  explaining 
  the 
  manner 
  in 
  which 
  we 
  acquire 
  the 
  

   knowledge 
  of 
  extension 
  or 
  space, 
  than 
  to 
  say, 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  Perception, 
  or 
  a 
  notion 
  

   suggested 
  to 
  the 
  mind 
  by 
  certain 
  of 
  our 
  sensations, 
  distinctly 
  formed 
  in 
  the 
  

   mind, 
  and 
  in 
  which, 
  when 
  we 
  analyse 
  it 
  as 
  minutely 
  as 
  we 
  can, 
  we 
  find 
  the 
  be- 
  

   lief 
  of 
  external 
  independent 
  existence 
  to 
  be 
  an 
  essential 
  element. 
  Sir 
  William 
  

   Hamilton 
  considers 
  the 
  conception 
  of 
  Space 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  native 
  form, 
  or 
  necessary 
  con- 
  

   dition 
  of 
  thought 
  ; 
  but 
  that 
  we 
  have 
  an 
  immediate 
  perception 
  of 
  something 
  ex- 
  

   tended, 
  i. 
  e., 
  invested 
  with 
  this 
  quality, 
  and 
  which 
  is 
  independent 
  of 
  us. 
  (See 
  

   Notes 
  to 
  pages 
  126 
  and 
  324 
  of 
  Collected 
  Works, 
  §c.) 
  

  

  I 
  cannot 
  perceive 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  anything 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  verbal 
  distinction 
  be- 
  

   tween 
  these 
  forms 
  of 
  expression 
  ; 
  but 
  if 
  there 
  be 
  a 
  real 
  improvement 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  

   form, 
  it 
  seems 
  to 
  me 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  sufficiently 
  provided 
  for 
  by 
  Dr 
  Reid's 
  admission, 
  

   that 
  a 
  finer 
  eye 
  may 
  trace 
  the 
  labyrinth 
  farther 
  than 
  he 
  has 
  done 
  ; 
  but 
  that 
  in 
  

   the 
  meantime 
  " 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  harm 
  done" 
  in 
  resting 
  on 
  the 
  position 
  of 
  Reid 
  as 
  to 
  

   that 
  belief; 
  and 
  acquiescing 
  in 
  his 
  reflection, 
  that 
  " 
  if 
  we 
  are 
  deceived 
  in 
  it, 
  we 
  are 
  

   deceived 
  by 
  Him 
  that 
  made 
  us, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  remedy." 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  stated 
  by 
  Morell, 
  and 
  I 
  believe 
  is 
  the 
  opinion 
  of 
  others 
  who 
  have 
  made 
  

   a 
  study 
  of 
  recent 
  German 
  works 
  on 
  metaphysics, 
  that 
  the 
  works 
  of 
  Dr 
  Reid 
  and 
  

   all 
  other 
  Scotch 
  metaphysicians, 
  although 
  accurate, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  theygo, 
  in 
  " 
  inves- 
  

   tigating 
  and 
  classifying 
  the 
  more 
  obvious 
  phenomena 
  of 
  the 
  mind, 
  as 
  they 
  

   appear 
  in 
  the 
  individual, 
  are 
  deficient 
  in 
  not 
  having 
  gone 
  a 
  step 
  farther, 
  and 
  dis- 
  

   covered 
  the 
  very 
  laws 
  of 
  our 
  mental 
  constitution, 
  on 
  which 
  our 
  primitive 
  beliefs 
  

   rest 
  ; 
  that 
  they 
  might 
  have 
  sought 
  the 
  groundwork 
  of 
  our 
  universal 
  notions 
  in 
  

   the 
  depths 
  of 
  our 
  own 
  being, 
  and 
  thus 
  referred 
  all 
  the 
  principles 
  of 
  common 
  

   sense, 
  all 
  the 
  primary 
  laws 
  of 
  belief, 
  back 
  to 
  their 
  source 
  in 
  the 
  subjective 
  forms 
  

   of 
  the 
  understanding 
  and 
  the 
  reason 
  {Historical 
  and 
  Critical 
  Vieiv, 
  §c, 
  vol. 
  ii., 
  

   p. 
  64) 
  ; 
  that 
  in 
  investigating 
  the 
  mental 
  phenomena, 
  our 
  object 
  should 
  be 
  to 
  

   discover, 
  not 
  merely 
  the 
  reality 
  of 
  certain 
  principles, 
  but 
  their 
  necessity, 
  — 
  not 
  

   merely 
  the 
  law 
  of 
  operation, 
  but 
  the 
  reason 
  of 
  that 
  law" 
  {Ditto, 
  p. 
  53) 
  ; 
  and 
  that 
  

   this 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  done, 
  not 
  by 
  mere 
  induction, 
  but 
  " 
  by 
  scanning 
  the 
  contents 
  of 
  our 
  

   consciousness 
  by 
  the 
  power 
  of 
  reflection, 
  whereby 
  we 
  are 
  enabled 
  to 
  catch 
  the 
  

   very 
  forms 
  of 
  our 
  inward 
  activity." 
  — 
  (P. 
  52.) 
  

  

  In 
  forming 
  this 
  opinion, 
  I 
  cannot 
  help 
  thinking 
  that 
  this 
  very 
  learned 
  and 
  

   estimable 
  author 
  has 
  deceived 
  himself; 
  and 
  that 
  no 
  such 
  advance 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  

  

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