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especially passive and receptive in feeling; and attributes the efficiency to the exterior occasion of the emotions. This we observe also in Uncultivated, immature persons. Their attention is particularly directed to the objects and sources of pleasure. Their appetites and passions lead them inevitably to this objective life, to this hanging upon the external conditions of pleasure, this clinging to the bosom of nature. The notion of cause and effect its own momentary enjoyments the effect attaches the mind, as yet little more than a bundle of sensations, strongly and at once to the external world. Slowly it unfolds the facts of this world, the avenues and dependencies of its own pleasures, its senses and the things which minister to them. The internal rather than the external is overlooked. The senses are separated from the objects which affect them, but the attention of the mind is much later referred to itself, as truly subjective to them all.

If we were to neglect the objective character of experience from the outset; if we should suppose the mind for a time floating from sensation to sensation on the inner, tidal movement of its own phenomena, we should find increasing difficulty in making the transition, and in justifying it when we had made it. We are rather to regard the mind as at once borne outward toward the sources of its enjoyments, and as realizing these in and by their causes. We should likewise observe the great aid which muscular effort gives in interpreting and locating sensations. By this means the child at first automatically, later voluntarily, renews and discontinues its physical impressions, till the mind has matured its knowledge of them, their diversities and conditions. The relations of space are especially dependent on movement for their determination. The eye and the hand work with each other in exploring surrounding bodies and intervening spaces, while a series of sensations