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ysis and synthesis to raise those sensuous or sensorious data to ideas and conceptions." Now, I suppose, I might explain it in the light of modern psychology somewhat in this way: The senses, namely, touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing, together with the nervous systems, form the various lines of communication between the Ego and the non-ego, be tween the Self and the not-self, between purushar-to use the technicality of our Sankaya Philosophy-and Prakiriti. The plastic mind of the child, like the photographer's sensitized plate is exposed to stimuli from the external world. Impressions from outside-the environmental conditions, i. e., the times, circumstances, and various other surrounding influences-impinge upon the mind and various combinations of brain-cells are formed. Registrations are enforced by further and further combinations, and the continued influx of impressions tend to the definite shaping of these brain-cells, according as one set of impressions corresponds with another and so on, till, in time, varying sets of group-cells are formed resulting in habits. The sum total of these impressions establishes itself in the mind of the child as tastes, likes and dislikes, inclinations and predilections. Their relative merits or demerits must be traced to the moulding influence of the early impressions. The child with the widening of its knowledge distinguishes between pleasurable and painful impressions. The child with the painful impressions, connects past with present, rejects painful impressions,