text:  And therefore were we not right in saying that a man's body is not given to him directly and at once but that he takes a certain time and must go through a certain process to acquire it? The conclusion which we would deduce from the whole of the foregoing remarks is that the great law of _living_[21] sensation the _rationale_ of sensation as a _living_ process is this that the senses are not merely _presentative_--_i