ANALYSIS OF COMBERS "SYSTEM OF PHRENOLOGY." 269 



cool and methodical representation to one's self of thini^s absent and 

 as they exist in nature. Imagination is the impassioned representa- 

 tion of the same things, not merely in the forms and arrangements 

 of nature, but in new combinations made by the mind itself. Per- 

 ception, therefore, is the first, conception the second, and imagination 

 the third degree of activity of the perceptive and reflective facul- 

 ties. 



Memory is not a faculty of the mind : it is solely a mode of ac- 

 tion of the faculties which perceive and reflect. The emotions ex- 

 j)erienced through the propensities and sentiments cannot be recalled 

 by merely willing them to be felt: hence, it is held that these 

 faculties do not possess memory, are incapable of performing the 

 act of remembering. Memory differs from conception, in that it 

 implies a new conception of impressions previously received, attend- 

 ed with the idea of past time and consciousness of their former 

 existence : generally, the act of remembering follows the order of 

 events as they happened. 



On the other side, in conception and imagination, new combina- 

 tions of ideas are formed, not only without regard to the time or 

 order in which the elementary notions had previously existed, but 

 even without any direct reference to their having formerly existed 

 at all. Judgment is the perception of adaptation, of relation, of 

 fitness, or of the connexion between means and an end : it is an act 

 performed exclusively by the reflective faculties ; it is the decision 

 of these upon the feelings furnished by the propensities and senti- 

 ments, and upon the ideas furnished by the whole intellectual pow- 

 ers. An analytical view of Lord Bacon's character is given by Mr. 

 C. at p. 642, as an example, how poor an endowment, even the 

 most transcendent intellect is, when unaccompanied with upright 

 sentiments. 



Mr. Combe accounts for the phenomena of dreaming, by showing 

 that it proceeds from the activity of the organs of some faculties 

 which continue to be awake while those of all the rest are asleep. 



This subject is curious and involves topics of high consideration : 

 his philosophy of dreaming is ingenious, clear, and substantial. It 

 is followed by disquisitions on consciousness, attention, association, 

 passion, pleasure and pain, patience and impatience, joy and grief, 

 sympathy, habit, and taste. After these come others on the effects 

 of organic size on the mental manifestations ; on the effects of the 

 organs when in different relative proportions or size ; on their com- 

 binations in activity ; with a practical application of the doctrine of 

 the combinations of the mental faculties and their organs. These 



