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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: self: the sight is my sight, the act is my act, the thought is my thought. If we further examine the manner in which this universal relation manifests itself in the particular case of presentative consciousness, we shall, find two special forms or conditions common to all possible states of external or internal intuition respectively?namely, Space and Time. OF THE FORMS OF INTUITIVE CONSCIOUSNESS?SPACE AND TIME. Space is the form or mental condition of our perception of external objects. The phenomena of the material world may vary in an infinite number of ways; but, under every variety, they retain the condition of existing in space, either as being themselves sensibly extended, or as having a local position in the sensitive organism. Without this condition, their existence at all as phenomena is inconceivable. We may suppose the phenomena changed as we will in other respects, but we cannot suppose them to exist out of space. We may suppose any given phenomenon to be non-existent, but the non-existence of space' is beyond our power of supposition. Hence space is necessarily regarded as infinite (though not positively conceived as such), for to suppose it finite is to suppose a point at which it ceases to exist. It has thus the characteristics of universality and necessity, which appear to mark it out as an a priori law or condition of the conscious mind, not as the adventitious result of any special experience. And this conclusion is confirmed by other considerations. For the consciousness of space,though accompanying the perceptions of various senses, cannot be regarded as properly the object of any one of them. There is a visible extension given in the apprehension of space, as occupied by light and color; there is a tangible extension given in the consciousness of certai...
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