UNDERSTANDING. Cxiii 



the understanding, and Locke might now repeat what he 

 said more than a century ago : &quot; although it is of the 

 highest concernment that great care should be taken of 

 the mind, to conduct it right in the search of knowledge 

 and in the judgments it makes: yet the last resort a 

 man has recourse to in the conduct of himself is his 

 understanding. A few rules of logic are thought suffi 

 cient in this case for those who pretend to the highest 

 improvement: and it is easy to perceive that men are guilty 

 of a great many faults in the exercise and improvement 

 of this faculty of the mind, which hinder them in their 

 progress, and keep them in ignorance and error all their 

 lives.&quot; (a) 



At some future period our youth will, perhaps, be 

 instructed in the different properties of our minds, under 

 standing, reason, imagination, memory, ivill, (b) and be 

 taught the nature and extent of our powers for the dis 

 covery of truth; our different motives for the exercise of 

 our powers ; the various obstacles to the acquisition of 

 knowledge, and the art of invention, by which our reason 

 will be &quot; rightly guided, and directed to the place where 

 the star appears, and point to the very house where the 

 babe lies.&quot; 



In the English universities there are not any lectures 

 upon the passions; but this subject, deemed important by 

 all philosophy, human and divine, is disregarded, (c) except 

 by such indirect information as may be obtained from the 



(a) See Introduction to Locke s Conduct of the Understanding and to 

 the Essay. See note Y Y Y at the end. 



(6) &quot; Facultates autem animae notissimse sunt ; Intellectus, Ratio, Phan- 

 tasia, Memoria, Appetitus, Voluntas denique universae illse, circse quas 

 versantur scientiae Logicsc et Etliicoo.&quot; Augmentis Scientiurum, lib. iv, 

 p. 242. Vol. viii. p. 242. 



(c) See note WWW at the end. 

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