CH. III.

§ 5. The Conscious Being.

anticipatory belief which cannot be verified by BOOK II. sensations depending on material organs. Imagination takes forms which cannot be verified, that is, the objects of which cannot be perceived, by means of sensations similar in kind to those out of which they sprang. This must be fully and frankly admitted. But, at the same time, this does not rob those forms of value, taken simply as imaginations; neither does it preclude enquiry into the inseparability of their connection, in some cases, with the constant modes of action inherent in conscious beings. The imaginations, for which such an inseparable connection should be established, would then likewise rank as constant and inherent, and share whatever validity might attach to their being founded in the essential structure and functioning, as distinguished from the acquired knowledge, of the conscious beings who possess and entertain them.

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