50 Major Pricr’s Extracts from the Mualijdt-i-Dérd Shekoht. 
out, as well as from writing, through words and letters written down. 
Intellect, or reflection, is produced when ideas committed to writing are 
enunciated in speech, or exhibited to the eye when words spoken are com- 
mitted to writing. 
The internal senses of the mind are such as the following :—imagination, 
conjecture, reflection, memory, retention, that is retaining in memory. 
We have already observed, that he who is born blind cannot, in imagination, 
make any conjecture as to form or figure, any more than he that is born 
deaf can have any notion as to the nature of sound or echo. It is evident, 
then, that the internal senses of man are directed through the external. 
One of the internal senses is conjecture, or suspicion,* which gives 
motion to reflectiont the primary movement of the understanding.t 
After conjecture follows perception; || but there can be no conjecture 
where there is no perception. Conjecture is, however, more liable to error 
than perception, because man conjectures that many a thing is salutary 
which is pernicious, and many a thing pernicious which is salutary. The 
difference between perception and conjecture is, that perception operates 
only while a man is awake, whereas conjecture is at work whether he is 
asleep or awake. By his perception, also, man feels only what is present, 
while by conjecture he can view both what is present and absent. 
Conjecture, which must here be taken for instinct, is to the irrational 
animal what intellect,§ or reason, is to man, for conjecture is more feeble 
in its operation than reason. ‘The intentional movements § of man proceed 
from reflection, which is an operation of the understanding, while those of 
the irrational animal proceed from conjecture or instinct; and this is a 
movement or affection by which the animal is led to select its food, to seek 
its mate, and to avoid its adversary. 
Conjecture again, or instinct, is a faculty which receives its perception 
through the medium of the air; or it is the faculty which conveys to the 
senses the impressions with which the air is fraught. Imagination** is the 
faculty which distinguishes from matter ++ the forms introduced through the 
senses, and retains them; and this is seated in the anterior part of the brain. 
It is moreover the faculty of the imagination that consigns the forms of 
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