On Intelligence
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Now of the two ways in which we attain to this event, the one, consciousness, is direct ; to know a sensation by con- sciousness, is to have present its image, which is the same sensation revived. The other way, on the contrary, that is external perception, is indirect ; it teaches us nothing as to the special characters of its object ; it simply informs us of a certain class of its effects. The object is not directly mani- fested to us it is denoted indirectly by the group of sensations 1 86 O...F MENTAL EVENTS. [BOOK IV.
it arouses, or would arouse in us. * In itself, excepting as to character we shall examine later on, this physical and sensible object remains wholly unknown to us ; all we know respecting it, is the group of sensations it excites in us. All we know of the cerebral molecules, are the sensations of grayish color, of flabby consistance, of form, volume, and other analogous ones, which these molecules excite in us, directly or through the microscope, in a crude state or after preparation that is to say, their constant effects upon us, the fixed accompaniments, their signs, nothing but their signs, signs and indications of unknown things.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Now of the two ways in which we attain to this event, the one, consciousness, is direct ; to know a sensation by con- sciousness, is to have present its image, which is the same sensation revived. The other way, on the contrary, that is external perception, is indirect ; it teaches us nothing as to the special characters of its object ; it simply informs us of a certain class of its effects. The object is not directly mani- fested to us it is denoted indirectly by the group of sensations 1 86 O...F MENTAL EVENTS. [BOOK IV.
it arouses, or would arouse in us. * In itself, excepting as to character we shall examine later on, this physical and sensible object remains wholly unknown to us ; all we know respecting it, is the group of sensations it excites in us. All we know of the cerebral molecules, are the sensations of grayish color, of flabby consistance, of form, volume, and other analogous ones, which these molecules excite in us, directly or through the microscope, in a crude state or after preparation that is to say, their constant effects upon us, the fixed accompaniments, their signs, nothing but their signs, signs and indications of unknown things.
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