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an immediate consciousness and consequently a Feeling. The proof
of this proposition is very instructive as to the nature of Feeling; for it shows
that, if by 'Psychology' we mean the positive, or
observational, science ofthe mind or of consciousness, then although the
entire consciousness at any one instant is nothing but a Feeling, yet
Psychology can teach us nothing of the nature of feeling, nor can we gain
knowledge of any Feeling by introspection, the feeling being completely
veiled from introspection, for the very reason that it is our immediate
consciousness. Possibly this curious truth was what Emerson
was trying to grasp but if so, pretty unsuccessfully, when he wrote
the lines,

The old Sphinx bit her thick lip, --
Said, "Who taught thee me to name?
I am thy spirit, yoke-fellow,
Of thine eye I am eyebeam.