Note 18-1 — Chapter I · THE BEARING OF THE LAWS OF MIND ON RELIGION.
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“Feeling and thought are much more real than anything else; they are the only things which we directly know to be real.”—John Stuart Mill.—Theism, p. 202. How very remote external objects are from what we take them to be, is constantly shown in physiological studies. As Helmholtz remarks: “No kind and no degree of similarity exists between the quality of a sensation, and the quality of the agent inducing it and portrayed by it.”—Lectures on Scientific Subjects, p. 390.