Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
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INTRODUCTION
Man is born with the faculty of receiving fenfations. In thofe which he receives, he is capable of perceiving and of difiinguifhing the fimple fenfations of which they are compofed. He can retain, recognife, combine them. He can preferve or recal them to his memory; he can compare their different combinations; he can afcertain what they poffefs in common, and what charatferifes each; laftly, he can affix figns to all thefe objects, the better to know them, and the more eafily to form from them new combinations.
This faculty is developed in him by the aclion of external obje6ts, that is, by the prefence of certain complex fenfations, the conflancy of which, whether in their identical whole, or in the laws of their change, is independent of himfelf. It is alfo exercifed by communication with other fimilarly organifed individuals, and by all the artificial means which, from the firll developement of this faculty, men have fuceeeded in inventing.
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