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CH. VI.] operation; and as the former becomes the parent of inductive, the latter is the source of deductive science.

Note 10, p. 88. Let it for the present suffice, &c.] An obvious distinction of potentiality—a boy is, potentially, qualified to be a general; that is, he has, by nature, faculties and powers which, when developed, will fit him for the office; and so is one who, although of suitable age, and whose faculties and powers are developed, may not yet have acquired the necessary military knowledge. An analogous distinction may be traced in sentient properties, but it is too evanescent for precise description; and the closing paragraph is a kind of summary of the conversion of the potential and unlike into the real and like.

CHAPTER VI
Note 1, p. 90. The Touch indeed, &c.] This sense has a wider range of perception than any other that is, it is not restricted, like the Sight, Hearing, and Smell, to a definite organism and one mode of impression; and, besides being extended over the body, it is essential to animal existence. The text makes no allusion to the Taste, this sense was regarded as subsidiary to or a  of the Touch. The special senses are Sight, Hearing, and Smell; Taste is less definite, as the tongue is sensible