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the experience of all men.]

What do we mean by 'Experience'? Surely, a correct and
precise analysis of that will be worth more than a little
pains, as long as we hold that all human knowledge, and
especially all assurance of knowledge, springs from the
soil of Experience. I answer the question thus; Experience is
that state of cognition which the course of life, by some
part thereof, has forced upon the recognition of the
experient, or person who undergoes the experience, under
conditions due usually, in part, at least, to his own action;
and the Immediate object of the cognition of Experience is
understood to be its what I call its 'Dynamical', that is, its
real object. I fear this statement stands nearly as much in