In his sense of sorrow and of humour, in his moral intuitions, in his Percipience of proportion and in all the subtle elements that go to make up the mental constitution of modern man, I see no difference in him from the European variety which to-day stands at the highest point of human achievement, but I freely confess that the African Native has so far shown a lack of that will to think analytically and critically which in the civilised man is the result of a continuous discontent with things as they are, a discontent which has urged him up to his present plane of racial supremacy.
"The Black Man's Place in South Africa"
Peter Nielsen
She lay in a state of Percipience without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
When, as Shades whisper in the chasmal night, "Better, far better, no Percipience here."
"The Dynasts An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes"
Thomas Hardy