ABSTRACT
And now the time has come for that second, and perhaps startling, quotation from Mr. B. Russell’s Analysis of Mind, towards which I have been working my way (though agreeing completely with neither) from his first description of the mnemic element as characteristic “of the subject-matter of psychology.” In the very last chapter of that admirable book of his, he makes the following statement: “Sensation itself is not an instance of consciousness, though the immediate memory by which it is apt to be succeeded is so. A sensation which is remembered becomes an object of consciousness as soon as it begins to be remembered, which will normally be almost immediately after its occurrence, if at all, but while it exists it is not an object of consciousness.”
