In this condition of mind a man often says that he has an "intuition" of something supposed to be immediately given in the feeling itself.

For instance, one whose mind is thrilled by the pulsation of a new joy exclaims, "This is the happiest moment of my life," and the assurance seems to be contained in the very intensity of the feeling itself.

Of course, cool reflection will tell him that what he affirms is merely a belief, the accuracy of which presupposes processes of recollection and judgment, but to the man's mind at the moment the supremacy of this particular joy is immediately intuited.

And so with the assurance that the present feeling, for example of love, is undying, that it is equal to the most severe trials, and so on.

A man is said to _feel_ at the moment that it is so, though as the facts believed have reference to absent circumstances and events, it is plain that the knowledge is by no means intuitive.
At such times our minds are in a state of pure feeling: intellectual discrimination and comparison are no longer possible.