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64. This faculty is assisted by another of an higher 

 order, attention, which so directs the mind, when ex- 

 cited, to any idea, that it dwells upon that idea alone 

 and surveys it fully. 



65. To preserve and recall the marks of ideas, is the 

 office of memory that part of the mind, which, in the 

 language of Cicero, is the guardian of the rest. 



66. Imagination* on the contrary, is that faculty of 

 the mind, which represents not merely the signs, but the 

 very images, of objects in the most lively manner, as if 

 they were present before the eyes. 



67. Abstraction forms general notions more remote 

 from sense. 



68. Judgment compares and examines the relations of 

 the ideas of sense and of abstract notions. 



69. Lastly reason the most noble and excellent of 

 all the faculties, draws inferences from the comparisons 

 of the judgment. f 



70. The combination of these constitutes the intellectual 

 faculty ; but there is another order, relating to appetency, 

 the word being taken in its most extensive meaning. 



* The difference, analogy, and relation, of memory and judgment, have given 

 rise to various controversies. Some celebrated psychologists have included 

 both under the word imagination taken in its most comprehensive sense, and 

 have divided it into two species ; memory representing former ideas, and the 

 facultas faigendi representing such ideas only as are formed by abstraction. 

 They again divide memory into sensitive (imagination in a stricter sense) and 

 intellectual. 



Their facultas fingendi they also subdivide into intellectual the more ex- 

 cellent ; and phantasy obeying mechanical laws. Feder, Grundsiitze der 

 Logik und Mctaphysik. Gutting. 1794. p. 20. 



t Of this the highest prerogative of the human mind, by which man exert* 

 his dominion over other animals, and indeed over the whole creation, 1 have 

 fully treated in my book t)f Gen. Horn. Var. Nat. p. 32. ed. 3. 



