As I have before observed, tactual perception, in so far as it is the recognition of an object of a certain size, hardness, and distance from our body, involves the least degree of interpretation, and so offers little room for error; it is only when tactual perception amounts to the _recognition_ of an individual object, clothed with secondary as well as primary qualities, that an opening for palpable error occurs.
With respect, however, to the first sub-class of these illusions, namely, those arising from organic peculiarities which give a twist, so to speak, to the sensation, no very marked contrast between the different senses presents itself.

So that in illustrating this group we shall be pretty equally concerned with the various modes of perception connected with the different senses.
It may be said once for all that in thus marking off from one another certain groups of illusion, I am not unmindful of the fact that these divisions answer to no very sharp natural distinctions.

In fact, it will be found that one class gradually passes into the other, and that the different characteristics here separated often combine in a most perplexing way.

All that is claimed for this classification is that it is a convenient mode of mapping out the subject..