This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...be fulfilled, I go on to stimulate your own reflections with the view of assisting you to reach a still clearer understanding of the distinction between thought and sensation, the bondage of the latter and the liberty of the former. Let us consider the contrast between the two. When a man feels a sensation ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...be fulfilled, I go on to stimulate your own reflections with the view of assisting you to reach a still clearer understanding of the distinction between thought and sensation, the bondage of the latter and the liberty of the former. Let us consider the contrast between the two. When a man feels a sensation (say the scratch of a pin), the sensation never disengages itself from itself in such a way as to make the man feel other sensations. The feeling of a sensation is never the feeling of that sensation and of other sensations besides; it is the feeling of that sensation only. Hence sensation, each sensation, is bond, not free; each of them has no range beyond itself. It is quite otherwise with the thought of a sensation. The thought of a sensation is not limited to that sensation. I mean that the very first time, and in the very first instant, in which a sensation is thought, the thought is not limited to that sensation; if it were limited to it, it would be mere sensation, not thought. It takes in something more, it has a range, it extends to other sensations as well. Thought thus disengages itself from the particular sensation, it puts a negative upon it, it in a manner denies that the sensation is it, the thought; it starts away from the sensation, and brings down upon it a universal, a conception which embraces other possible sensations as well. Instead of saying that thought disengages itself from the particular sensation, it would be more correct to say that this disengagement is itself thought. There is not, first of all, the thought of the sensation and then the disengagement of the thought from the sensation, and its extension to other instances of the same. No; the process is better described by saying that the disengagement, the...
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