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than as distinct cognitions, that the new objects find admission and confer pleasure. Slowly the eye learns to separate objects just at hand, and distinctly discern them, though possessed of no peculiar brilliancy. It recognizes the face of the mother, and at length follows, even into the distance, 'her retreating form. Still, its range, for a considerable period, seems limited, scarcely passing the verge of the cradle.

(4r) The mind is now ready to harmonize in action its different senses. Taste and touch are united, and each object that can be handled is subjected to the double test. The hand also follows vision, and strives to lay hold of each new thing. The ear learns to direct the eye, and the distant voice wins the attention of both organs. The process of acquisition goes on till a definite mastery of each member is secured, its peculiar impressions discriminated, and the visible world unfolded and rolled out in its marvellous complexity of forms and relations.

This movement, from the beginning, takes place under an objective form. The sensation is not enjoyed subjectively, dreamily; but objectively, really. The pleasures are attached at once to an object and a state; thus also the pains. The spontaneous, muscular effort with which they are connected facilitates this external form of experience, by attaching enjoyment to objects independent of the senses themselves, to things momentarily lost and momentarily regained. Distinct, muscular exertion aids in distinguishing different states, in marking their attainment, maintenance, and loss.

The objective character of early experience is also heightened by the degree in which it is composed of sensations often the definite rugged sensations of pain as opposed to perceptions, and later, of external, as contrasted with reflective pleasures. Language presents the mind as