purpose we must take into account the muscular motion and voluntary locomotion of the individual. — Caspar Hauser[1], in a detailed account of his own experience in this respect states, that upon his first liberation from confinement, whenever he looked through the window upon external objects, such as the street, garden, etc., it appeared to him as if there were a shutter quite close to his eye, and covered with confused colours of all kinds, in which he could recognise or distinguish nothing singly. He says farther, that he did not convince himself till after some time during his walks out of doors, that that what had at first appeared to him as a shutter of various colours, as well as mang other objects, were in reality very different things ; and that at length the shutter disappeared, and he saw and recognised all things in their just proportions. Persons born blind who obtain their sight by an operation in later years only, sometimes imagine that all objects touch their eyes, and lie so near to them that they are afraid of stumbling against them ; sometimes they leap towards the moon, supposing that they can lay hold of it ; at other times they run after the clouds moving along the sky, in order to catch them, or commit other such extravagancies. — Since ideas are gained by reflection upon sensation, it is further necessary in all cases, in order that an accurate idea of objects may be
- ↑ Feuerbach's Caspar Jauser, Beispiel eines Verbrechens am Seelenleben eines Menschen, Anspach, 1832, p. 79, etc. (Note de Schop.)
