Let us imagine a being, endowed with the sense of _touch_, and with every other sense and faculty of our mind, but _not_ with any previous knowledge of his own corporeal frame, or of other things external,--and let us suppose a small body, of any shape, to be pressed, for the first time, on his open hand. Whatever feelings mere touch can give, directly of itself, would of course be the same in this case, as _now_, when our knowledge is increased, and complicated, from many other sources.

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