CHAPTEE II 



THE CONTENTS OF THE MIND 



IN the language of common life, the " mind " 

 is spoken of as an entity, independent of the hody, 

 though resident in and closely connected with it, 

 and endowed with numerous "faculties," such as 

 sensibility, understanding, memory, volition, 

 which stand in the same relation to the mind as 

 the organs do to the hody, and perform the func- 

 tions of feeling, reasoning, remembering, and will- 

 ing. Of these functions, some, such as sensation, 

 are supposed to be merely passive that is, they 

 are called into existence by impressions, made 

 upon the sensitive faculty by a material world of 

 real objects, of which our sensations are supposed 

 to give us pictures; others, such as the memory 

 and the reasoning faculty, are considered to be 

 partly passive and partly active; while volition is 

 held to be potentially, if not always actually, a 

 spontaneous activity. 

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