Myriads of such universes
even now may coexist, irrelevant to one
another; my concern is solely with the universe
with which my own life is connected.
In that perceptual part of _my_ universe which
I call _your_ body, your mind and my mind meet
and may be called conterminous. Your mind
actuates that body and mine sees it; my
thoughts pass into it as into their harmonious
cognitive fulfilment; your emotions and volitions
pass into it as causes into their effects.
But that percept hangs together with all our
other physical percepts. They are of one stuff
with it; and if it be our common possession,
they must be so likewise. For instance, your
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hand lays hold of one end of a rope and my
hand lays hold of the other end. We pull
against each other. Can our two hands be
mutual objects in this experience, and the rope
not be mutual also? What is true of the rope is
true of any other percept. Your objects are
over and over again the same as mine. If I
ask you _where_ some object of yours is, our old
Memorial Hall, for example, you point to _my_
Memorial Hall with _your_ hand which _I_see_. If
you alter an object in your world, put out a
candle, for example, when I am present, _my_
candle _ipso_facto_ goes out.
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