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sensations, but they are not the faculty itself, without 

 which they would be useless. We all know that the 

 eye and ear may be open to the sights and sounds about 

 us ; but if the mind happens to be preoccupied, we perceive 

 them not. We may even be searching for something which 

 actually lies within the compass of our vision; the light 

 enters the eye as usual, and the image is formed on the 

 retina ; but, to use a common expression, we look without 

 seeing, unless the mind that perceives is directed to the object. 



131. In addition to the faculty of perceiving sensations, 

 the higher animals have also the faculty of recalling past 

 impressions, or the power of memory. Many animals retain 

 a recollection of the pleasure or pain they have experi- 

 enced, and seek or avoid the objects which may have pro- 

 duced these sensations ; and, in doing so, they give proof 

 of judgment. 



132. This fact proves that animals have the faculty of 

 comparing their sensations and of deriving conclusions from 

 them ; in other words, that they carry on a process of 



reasoning. 



133. These different faculties, taken together, constitute 

 intelligence. In man, this superior principle, which is an 

 emanation of the divine nature, manifests itself in all its 

 splendor. God " breathed into him the breath of life, and 

 man became a living soul." It is man's prerogative, and his 

 alone, to regulate his conduct by the deductions of reason ; 

 he has the faculty of exercising his judgment not only 

 upon the objects which surround him, and of apprehending 

 the many relations which exist between himself and the ex- 

 ternal world ; he may also apply his reason to immaterial 

 things, observe the operations of his own intellect, and, by 

 the analysis of his faculties, may arrive at the conscious- 

 ness of his own nature, and even conceive of that Infinite 

 Spirit, " whom none by searching can find out." 



