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The more frequently sensations are recalled in the same
order, they recal one another with the more certainty
and rapidity in that order

The will has no direct control over the memory
Remembrance of sensations could not give the notion of
cause and effect

The mind expects like consequents to follow like
antecedents

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Pleasure or pain of sensation, and also of discriminating,
the germ of the passions or emotions; the power of
discriminating the germ of intellectual operations
The pain or pleasure of remembered sensations abates
on every successive remembrance
On every repetition of the remembrance of a sensation the
mind becomes more accurate and prompt in discern-
ing its peculiar character

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The two elements of sensations take different directions
by repetition, the pain or pleasure subsides, but the
discrimination of them becomes more perfect

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The abating of the pleasure or pain of sensations, as of dis-
criminations, lies at the foundation of curiosity

The unlimited power of the mind to discern differences

and resemblances occasions one superiority of intel-

lectual over sensual pursuits

Important division: emotions, and intellectual operations

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Aided by sense of sight

Knowledge of distances

Notion of space necessarily connected with that of matter
Progress of the knowledge of material objects

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NOTION OF SELF, OR PERSONAL IDENTITY.

Two views; personal identity as distinguished from other

beings, and personal identity with regard to continued

duration

Identification of myself as distinguished from others
Identification of myself at different periods of my existence.
Consciousness, remembrances

Prolonged identity in the view of other persons

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Definition

No will without voluntary motion of the body
The only dominion of the will is the body

The will does not acquire direct power over the mind by
its powers over the body

The most despotic monarch deprived of will if deprived

of voluntary motion of the body

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ORIGIN OF OUR NOTION OF CAUSE AND EFFECT.

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The remembrance of objects by suggestion implies the
power of discerning resemblances and differences
among them

Importance of this discrimination

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§ 1. THE CLASSIFICATION OF EXTERNAL MATERIAL OBJECTS.

Classed by observed resemblances .
Thoughts, or mental operations founded on perception,
classed on the same principle

§2.--INDUCTION, AS EXERCISED ON EXTERNAL MATERIAL OBJECTS.

Founded on expectations of same consequents to same

antecedents

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