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[Nehring M. <pro...@ti...>]

 definitions of either of these, let us call them, faculties. Besides
I should prefer that these pages

deal only with such mental facts as can be found in the Reader's
everyday (however unnoticed)

experience, instead of requiring for their detection the artificial
conditions of specialised introspection or laboratory experiment. So I
shall give to those much fought over words _attention_
and _memory_ merely the
rough and ready meaning with which we are familiar
in everyday language, and only beg the Reader to notice that,
whatever psychologists may eventually prove or disprove _attention_

and _memory_ to be, these two, let us unscientifically call them
_faculties,_ are what chiefly distinguishes _perception_ from
_sensation._ For instance, in grasping or taking stock of a visible
or an audible
shape we are doing something with our attention, or our attention is
doing something in us: a travelling about, a returning to starting
points, a summing up. And a travelling about not merely between what
is given
simultaneously