Beyond what our single sense can tell.

Now, all that I learn from the sense of touch

Is the fact of my feelings, viewed as such.

But to think they have any external cause

Is an inference clean against logical laws.

Again, to suppose, as I’ve hitherto done,

There are other jellyfish under the sun,

Is a pure assumption that can’t be backed

By a jot of proof or a single fact.

In short, like Hume, I very much doubt