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APPEAEANCES AND REALITY. 229 involved, but a judgment which disappears upon reflexion on our positions as observers. In the latter case the desired result is not gained even if we disregard the activity of thought necessary to apprehend the image. For the image stands in no relation to the object, except possibly as its effect. And whatever it is, it is not its appearance or the appearance of anything. And if that be so, no distinction between reality and appearance remains. There are two kinds of reality, objects without the mind and images within it, and we know the one and we do not know the other. Lastly, examination of instances leads us to the same result. However much I see an object distorted through bad glass or in reflexions, it is the thing which I see. There is strictly speaking no ' look ' or ' image ' of the thing ; there is only the thing with its character- istics distorted. The word ' look ' or ' appearance ' properly refers to a judgment, and that not a judgment I make now, but one which I should make under certain conditions. H. A. PKICHARD. 16