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i.e. each of them causes to jump up before my imagination a host of phantoms. One of the above two mental sceneriest I., II., will take place: i.e. there will be, or there will not be, a common phantom: it is impossible to foretel which of these two cases will take place.
Next, I put the same two notions, watch, pencil, before the senses of a little, say, pin-manufactory boy, of seven years. The boy is in the same predicament as myself; there will, or there will not, be a common phantom rising before his imagination; but it is clear that he will have a great many chances less than myself, on account of each of the two notions, watch, pencil, being a great deal less familiar to him than to myself; he knows, comparatively, very little about the properties and circumstances peculiarly belonging to or connected with watch, pencil,—they are for him (
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The same two notions, watch, pencil, put before the senses of a boy who had passed his last seven years alternately in rambles in Covent-garden Market, in St. Catherine's Docks, police stations, and Newgate—to him, watch and pencil will be as familiar as to myself; i.e. the number of notions jumping up will be as great as mine. The kind of these jumped-up notions will be different from
