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critics, or geologists The 
ra St Sties as there are subject matters (whmh m a most 
questionable positron) had spoken rfour^ratm ^ ^ 
worthy °ofdeep 6 ^ “attention at the present^time.^ Jt^ un- f 
eminS men toXe^Sauthont^ ol points quite remote 
from their special departments 0 , s ar ^ s a ,bout memory. 
54.Equallyimportant are our au but it by 
Popular opinion represents it as a sing memory 
no means follows because a m ano ther. Dr. Newman 
on one thing that he mus enumer ate in exact order the 
tells us of a person who e “ U “ e Comertot b e Bank; and 
names on all the shops fr° m _ J Pxa mination in the academical 
of another who could stand an examina p t 
«' “i r ™ a r " m 
no means follows that sue P knew man wto could 
rem1mLX S VdeX° P T g e in which a thing was to be found, 
conclusion of the directly scien i P . sense.” I think 
I am compelled to make a rather long 
“Certitude (p. 337) is a mental state; Shi 
sitions. Those propositions I call cer a de on the mind from 
of them. Certitude is not a ^ ^ questions (nay, 
without by argumentative compul , the m i TK l which judges 
even on abstract, for though the — * * as true> suc]l „ it 
Of it is concrete) it is an active recognition of P»P" . when rea , on 
is the duty of each individual to ***** excep t 0 n abso- 
forbids, to withhold. And reason never . . 0 f wor ds ; 
lute proof, and such a proof can never which^ leads to it. 
for as certitude is of the mind, so is ^ expedient for obtaining a 
Every one who reasons is his own c ^ g . butt b e n the question follows, 
common measure of mind can revers \ m ay be onr warrant that 
is there any criterion for an act inferred, since onr 
certitude is rightly decided m _ ? j bave already said that the sole 
warrant cannot be as I have said scien . ^ ooncrete mat ter is com- 
and final judgment on the reality of an ^ ^ sense, and I own 
