Note 72 — IV

Shadworth Hodgson has laid great stress on the fact that the minimum of consciousness demands two subfeelings, of which the second retrospects the first. (Cf. the section ‘Analysis of Minima’ in his Philosophy of Reflection, vol. i, p. 248; also the chapter entitled ‘The Moment of Experience’ in his Metaphysic of Experience, vol. i, p. 34.) ‘We live forward, but we understand backward’ is a phrase of Kierkegaard’s which Höffding quotes. [H. Höffding: “A Philosophical Confession,” Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, vol. ii, 1905, p. 86.]