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portion of what we call thought, as distinguished 

 from mere confused sentiency." * Throughout the- 

 entire range, from the simplest recognition of likeness 

 or difference up to the most complicated and profound 

 intellectual process, the one characteristic, essential 

 at every step, and which determines the whole, is the 

 knowledge of relations, or in Mr. Spencer's language 

 " intellection " which " comprehends only the relational 

 elements of mind." In intellection there is implied 

 (1) a faculty of perception of external objects, (2) a 

 faculty of reproducing the object in thought, (3) a 

 faculty of comparison of object with object, either 

 directly or through the representative faculty, (4> 

 ability to group objects according to known resem- 

 blances. The exercise of all these powers is necessary 

 to the simplest beginnings as to the greatest achieve- 

 ments of thought. It is of little moment what name- 

 we give to that which is assumed to be in active 

 exercise throughout the whole range of intellection. 

 Call it mind, or by what name you will, it is not a 

 product of evolution: it is there alike in the first 

 dawn of consciousness and in the mightiest efforts of 

 intellectual power. Ever revealing itself in the con- 

 scious life of each man is that something which hears,, 

 and sees, and feels ; which remembers, and imagines \ 

 which compares, and judges; which links concept to 

 concept and group to group ; which, acting according- 



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