Note FS — Chapter VIII · MENTAL PROCESSES IN MAN.

"Let the perception be considered to be made up of x + y; x being the ego, or self, and y the object. The mind has the power of supplying its own - x, and so we get (through the imagination of the mind and the object) x + y - x, or y pure and simple" (Mivart, "On Truth," p. 135). Mr. Mivart devotes a whole section of this work to the defence of ordinary common-sense realism. The above assertion seems to contain the essence of his teaching in the matter.