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every experience whatever. How else can I distinguish between an experience and a play of fancy of extreme vividness, than by the sense of compulsion in the forever sense. And how can there be compulsion without resistance? Were Gratry right, then, every inductive reasoning which passes from observation of the finite and the discrete to belief in the infinite ot the continuous, ought to be accompanied by the sense that that belief was forced on me, whether I will or no. That result however , is, I believe, is contradicted by observation instead of experiencing any such complusion and struggle, I feel rather a sort of sympathy with nature which makes me sure that the continuity fundamentally is there, somewhat as I felt sure I understood the particular state of mind in my mare at the time I was putting her up. 3rdly, the opinion just now referred to, that logical principles are known by an inward light of

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every experience whatever. How else can I distinguish between an experience and a play of fancy of extreme vividness, than by the sense of compulsion in the forever sense. And how can there be compulsion without resistance? Were Gratry right, then, every inductive reasoning which passes from observation of the finite and the discrete to belief in the infinite ot the continuous, ought to be accompanied by the sense that that belief was forced on me, whether I will or no. That result however , is, I believe, is contradicted by observation instead of experiencing any such complusion and struggle, I feel rather a sort of sympathy with nature which makes me sure that the continuity fundamentally is there, somewhat as I felt sure I understood the particular state of mind in my mare at the time I was putting her up. 3rdly, the opinion just now referred to, that logical principles are known by an inward light of