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Instinctive Ideas. 



25. Several ideas must necessarily co-exist, giving rise to compound 

 ideas always existing in the brain : thus personality and infinity give us 

 the idea of the Soul ; pleasure and infinity, of Good ; pain and infinity, of 

 Evil ; cause and infinity, of God ; time and infinity, of Eternity ; infinity, 

 pleasure and time, of Heaven ; infinity, pain and time, of Hell.* 



26. These instinctive ideas are not produced by the immediate action 

 of external influences, but have their origin in the construction of the 

 brain, or organ of thought. 



27. Instinctive ideas belong to the higher class of mental images ; and 

 there is no reason to suppose that a more simple idea is implanted in the 

 human species. In the lower animals, however, it is apparent that either 

 other images exist, which guide the creatures to perform their operations 

 as the bird to build the nest, the bee the honeycomb ; or that the 

 nervous system is so constructed, that the creature is led to perform 

 specific acts under some definite excitement. 



Reflection. 



28. When images already implanted in the brain, which possess many 

 points in common, continually reappear, the party is said to be reflecting. 



29. During reflection, the influences of the external world to produce 

 new images are entirely, or to a great part, neglected. 



30. By reflection, ideas may be combined so as to form general laws. 



31. By reflection, general laws may be applied to specific instances, or 

 images may be analysed into their component parts. 



Judgment. 



32. When an idea is represented to the mind, it either accords or 

 discords with other ideas previously received, or with general laws resulting 

 therefrom, or with the moral law. The determination between this con- 

 cordance or discordance is called Judgment. 



Imagination. 



33. Man has the power of uniting two or more antecedent images, or 

 the parts of two or more antecedent images. By this power, a totally new 

 image is formed, and hence it is called Imagination. 



34. Observation is the basis of fancy ; and the novelist is fruitful only 

 in proportion as he stores his mind with natural images. 



Action. 



35. Man acts by electricity, which is set in motion through the 

 muscular structures, whereby contraction ensues, and parts of the body 

 are moved. 



36. Action may be produced by the immediate influence of the 



* As these instinctive ideas are simply thoughts, and cannot be proved by 

 our external senses, the mind may be led at times to deny the reality of their 

 existence. Revelation, however, declares their truth, and thus compensates for 

 the natural weakness of man. 



