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71. For since we are impelled by various internal 

 stimuli to provide food and other necessaries, and 

 also to satisfy the sexual instinct, and are impelled the 

 more violently, in proportion as imagination inflames 

 our wishes, desires, properly so called, are thus pro- 

 duced ; and if, on the other hand, the mind becomes 

 weary of unpleasant sensations, aversions occur. 



72. Finally, that faculty which selects out of many 

 desires and aversions, and can at pleasure determine to 

 perform functions for certain purposes, is denominated 

 volition. 



73. Our order of enumeration corresponds with that 

 of the development of the faculties, and with the 

 relation in which those termed brute- common to man 

 and animals, and those more or less peculiar to man, 

 stand to each other. 



NOTE. 



Dr. Gall gives a very different view of the mental faculties. 

 Instead of dividing them into memory, judgment, &c. as funda- 

 mental faculties ; and viewing " the Power of Taste, a genius for 

 Poetry, for Painting, for Music, for Mathematics," &c. as " more 

 complicated powers or capacities, which are gradually formed by 

 particular habits of study or of business; " * he regards these last 

 powers as distinct faculties, and memory, judgment, &c. merely 

 as modes or varieties common to the action of each faculty. He 

 contends that when we see a boy, brought up exactly like his 

 brothers and sisters, displaying fine musical talents or an asto- 



* Dugald Stewart, Outlines of Moral Philosophy, p. 10. 



