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CHAP. III. 



Of Mental Pleasures and Pahts. 



63. xSY mental pleasures and pains I understand those we 

 receive without the intervention of the external organs of 

 sense ; these are numerous, but may be classed according to 

 the capacities or powers (as they are commonly called) of 

 the human mind to which they refer, and from which they 

 appear to flow. These powers may conveniently be reduced 

 to the six following ; Animality, or the power of receiving 

 sensations (which, not being the immediate source of plea- 

 sures or pains, purely mental, is mentioned here only to ren- 

 der the division of human powers more exact and compleat,) 

 memorij, imagination, understanding, will or the elective power, 

 the moral sense, and affectibiliti/. 



64. It is needless to observe, that these powers are 

 nothing distinct from the soul itself, considered either as a 

 subject in receiving sensations, ideas, emotions, desires and 

 sentiments, or as an agent in willing or judging. 



65. The pleasures and pains of memory consist in the ideal 

 repetition of sensations originally received by vision ?t\\d audi- 

 tion (if I may be permitted to denote by this word the sense 



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