Bodies Do Not Produce Sensations, But Complexes

The Plain Man Is Familiar With Blindness And Deafness, And Knows From His Everyday Experience That The Look Of Things Is Influenced By His Senses; But It Never Occurs To Him To Regard The Whole World As The Creation Of His Senses.

My Table Is Now Brightly, Now Dimly Lighted. Its Temperature Varies. It May Receive An Ink Stain. One Of Its Legs May Be Broken. It May Be Repaired, Polished, And Replaced Part By Part. But, For Me, It Remains The Table At Which I Daily Write.

Without Renouncing The Support Of Physics, It Is Possible For The Physiology Of The Senses, Not Only To Pursue Its Own Course Of Development, But Also To Afford To Physical Science Itself Powerful Assistance.

Everyone Is Free To Set Up An Opinion And To Adduce Proofs In Support Of It. Whether, Though, A Scientist Shall Find It Worth His While To Enter Into Serious Investigations Of Opinions So Advanced Is A Question Which His Reason And Instinct Alone Can Decide. If These Things, In The End, Should Turn Out To Be True, I Shall Not Be Ashamed Of Being The Last To Believe Them.

Many An Article That I Myself Penned Twenty Years Ago Impresses Me Now As Something Quite Foreign To Myself.