ABSTRACT
The primitive immediacy of feeling is largely sensational, and passes, by means of the twofold reference of conscious states, into the mode in which the external and internal worlds are together mediated. There are two periods of immediacy, the one primitive and a-logical, the other transcendent and hyper-logical. With the one, conscious process begins its career; with the other, it ends it. And between the two lies the vast tract of mediate function, which ministers to the life of neutral knowledge and strenuous practice. There are theories based on primitive immediacy, on transcendent immediacy, and on immediacy of synthesis or reconciliation. The primitive data of consciousness are, of course, in some sense the foundation of all further data, and the return to immediate certainty is a source of consolation after speculative misadventure. The fervour of primitive religious ceremonial and the effervescence of social excitement terminate in such states of mind.
