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( 129 ) spring from the body in the form of a sense-orgau or without such a form, or does it spring from such outward bodily appertances as hair, nails &c. The first question is not right. If it springs in the form of a sense-organ, its knowledge ought to be linnited to the present perceptions only because the perceptions of tlie sense-organs limit themselves only to the present phenomena. On this assumption the mental knowledge would limit itself only to the present phenomena as the sense organs. It is only when the eye sees a forin that it forus its idea, not at any other time. The presence of the forın is then the cause of its perception. The mental knowledge does not depend upon the presence of a form and it is not therefore limited to any particular time. The same argument applies in the case of other sense-organs. The mental knowledge does not therefore depend upou the phenomena of any particular time. If it does not spring in the form of a sense-organ, the position is still faulty for it is ulcoascious. As
