ABSTRACT
Consciousness, or the awareness of objects, can hardly be defined or described in terms of anything with which we are more fully acquainted than itself; yet something may profitably be said about it in relation to other modes in which objects are combined. Reflection on the distinction between what is rightly referred to the conscious centre and what is rightly referred to particular objects that are apprehended, has sometimes led to a definite philosophical dualism. The fact expressed by the term "attention" appears to be closely connected with the quantitative aspect of consciousness. The term "feeling", like so many others that we have to use in philosophy, is somewhat ambiguous. It is applied generally to modes of apprehension that lack distinctness. It is thus contrasted with definite knowledge. Interest is closely connected with feeling, in the sense that has just been referred to. It is a mode of valuation in which the ground is partly apparent.
