Note 17 — Chapter III · IN RELATION TO THOUGHT

The Mystical Element of Religion, vol. ii, p. 265.

The author quotes Kant—“we can be mediately conscious of an apprehension as to which we have no distinct consciousness.” “The field of our obscure apprehensions,—that is, apprehensions and impressions of which we are not directly conscious, although we can conclude without doubt that we have them—is immeasureable, whereas clear apprehensions constitute but a very few points within the complete extent of our mental life.”