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THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW.

amount of proof first and last makes specific pain nerves and separate bodily sensations of pain pretty certain. In one or two regions or processes specific sensations of pleasure seem probable. There is likelihood of them in many places, and no final proof against them anywhere.

The great bulk of our æsthetic feelings unquestionably are associations and of central origin. In view of this, and impressed by the common belief that all central copies or products must at some time have prototype sensations of peripheral origin, it should now be the major concern of any hypothesis offered for the solution of our problem to account for the fundamental origin of the ultimate pain and pleasure elements of our aesthetic associations. To this matter, which I have had in view through all the obscurities and contradictions to which I may seem to have committed myself, we must in the next article address our attention.

Herbert Nichols.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

(To be concluded.)