...Consciousness. Without this our internal states could not even be observed by us. We understand the connexion of our inner life only by referring all its events to the one Ego. 1 Vol. i. pp. 143, 144. 2 Ibid. p. 147. The reasoning of Lotze on this point seems to us unanswerable,...

...in which we ascribe it to our own personality. This sense we now proceed more precisely to define. We come to understand the connection of our inner...succession. Every retrospect of the past brings with it this image of the ego as the combining centre ; our ideas, our feelings, our efforts are comprehensible...

...proceed more precisely to define. We come to understand the connection of our inner life only byreferring all its events to the one ego, lying unchanged alike...succession. Every retrospect of the past brings with it this image of the ego as the combining centre ; our ideas, our feelings, our efforts are comprehensible...

...reflexion to be possible only as acts of such a simple subject. " We come to understand the connexion of our inner life only by referring all its events...succession. Every retrospect of the past brings with it this image of the Ego as the combining centre ; our ideas, our feelings, our efforts are comprehensible...

...apparitions, but there is also the experience which gives rise to the continually reappearing notion of ' the one ego lying unchanged alike beneath its simultaneous variety and its temporal succession' (Lotze, quoted p. 79). I do not know whether this experience can be explained as the dim, but constant,...