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the mental nature of sensory perception

     Memory may reproduce voices long ago silent. We have but to close the eyes, and forms rise before us, which are thousands of miles away or altogether gone from physical sight and sense, and this not in dreamy sleep. In our day-dreams we can recall that for which the poet Tennyson expressed the heart's desire, — 

  	          the touch of a vanished hand,
  	       And the sound of a voice that is still. 

 The mind may even be cognizant of a present flavor and odor, when no viand touches the palate and no scent salutes the nostrils.