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of states of consciousness produced by the successive touching of tin- intermediate fingers a series of states comparable with any other such series, and capable of being estimated as greater or less. And when by numberless n- petitions the relation between any one finger and each of tin' others is established, and can be represented to the mind as a series of a given length, then we may understand how a stick laid upon the surface, so as to touch all the fingers from A to Z inclusive, will be taken as equivalent to the series A to Z how the simultaneous excitation of the entire range of fingers, will come to stand for its serial excitation how thus, objects laid upon the surface will come to be distinguished from each other by the relative length of the series they cover, or when broad as well as long, by the groups of series which they cover and how by habit these simultaneous excitations, from being at first known indirectly by translation into the serial ones, will come to be known directly, and the serial ones will be forgotten, just as in childhood the words of a new language, at first understood by means of their equivalents in the mother tongue, are presently understood by themselves; and if used to the exclusion of the mother tongue, lead to the ultimate loss of it. The greatly magnified apparatus here described, being reduced to its original shape the surface of the finger-ends being diminished to the size of the retina, the things laid upon that surface being understood as the images cast upon the retina, and its movements in contact with these things as the movements of the retina relatively to the images some conception will be formed of one part of the process by which our ideas of visual extension are gained." Pages 221-2-3.

The difference between the view we wish to enforce, and that presented in this passage, lies here: Do we interpret the experience here detailed by a notion of space, of