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of intellectual power that we first direct attention. (1) The earliest distinct mental phenomena are doubtless those of sensation, are physical feelings. These should be conceived as perfectly pure, that is as simple states "or. activities of mind for our present purposes there is no difference between a state and an activity of mind; both are activities. These first sensations may be of one kind or of another, but are more likely to enter through the general sensational system than through a specific sense, to be sensations of pain, local or pervasive, demanding relief, and rising with acute, jagged certainty into the light of consciousness. It matters not what are the first sensations, since it is a changing series of sensations that invites attention. These are each simple, single, mental states known in the very fact of their existence as sensibilities. Separately, they are capable of no analysis, no division whatever. A pain, a taste are as individual as any objects of contemplation can be. To suppose these to reveal directly an external object, would be to suppose that the phenomena of matter become the phenomena of mind, and are known directly as such. We can only allow, then, that sensations disclose themselves -directly in consciousness, all beyond this is inferential. At this stage of growth, possessed of sensations merely, the infant is as ignorant of his own physical organs as of the world about him. He absolutely knows nothing save the varying pains and pleasures that flit through that unlocated region called consciousness, itself more often hidden under the cloud of dreams than open to the new light of waking perceptions. A tongue, a hand, an eye, a foot, are wholly beyond the scope of his knowledge; nothing physical, external to consciousness, is as yet recognized. In adult years we so instantly locate each sensation, that it seems to us that it itself declares its position. We are doubtless to conceive of the mind as using the entire body, as making it directly
