80 OF THE MENTAL FACULTIES. 



SECT. V. 



OF THE MENTAL FACULTIES. 



61. Man, whom we have found possessed of a body, 

 answering completely both in matter and texture, as 

 well as vital powers, the purposes of its formation, is 

 endowed likewise with a mind, a " divinae particula 

 aurae," intimately connected with the body, and deve- 

 loping by education and exercise various kinds of facul- 

 ties, which we shall concisely enumerate, as far as they 

 belong to our subject. * 



62. The sensibility of the nerves, mentioned above 

 among the vital powers, (43) constitutes, as it were, the 

 medium which propagates the impressions of stimuli 

 upon sensible parts, and especially upon the organs of 

 sense (to be hereafter examined), to the sensorial por- 

 tion of the brain, in such a manner that they are per- 

 ceived by the mind. 



63. The mental faculty to be first enumerated, and 

 indeed to be placed at the bottom of the scale, is the 

 faculty of perception, by means of which the mind takes 

 cognizance of impressions made upon the body, and 

 chiefly upon the organs of sense, and becomes furnished 

 with ideas. 



* Consult Alex. Chrichton, Inquiry into the nature and origin of mental 

 derangement, compreheitding a concise system of the Physiology and Pathology 

 of the human mind. Lond. 171)8. 2 vols. 8vo. Em. Kant, Anthropologic in 

 pragmatischer Hinsicht. Konigsb. 1798. 8vo. Chr. Mcincr, Vntersuchungen 

 fiber die Denkhriifte und Willeivkraftc des Mtnschcn nach <tnlcituug der 

 Erfahrung. Gott. 1806. 2 vols. 8vo. 



