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ideas, as those of form, size, colour, weight, objects in 

 their totality, events in their progress or occurrence, 

 time, musical sounds, &c. The system of mind invented 

 by this philosopher — the only one founded upon nature, 

 or which even pretends to or admits of that necessary 

 basis — shows a portion of the brain acting as a faculty of 

 comic ideas, another of imitation, another of wonder, one 

 for discriminating or observing differences, and another 

 in which resides the power of tracing effects to causes. 

 There are also parts of the brain for the sentimental part 

 of . our nature, or the affections, at the head of which 

 stand the moral feelings of benevolence, conscientious- 

 ness, and veneration. Through these, man stands in 

 relation to himself, his fellow-men, the external world, 

 and his God ; and through these comes most of the hap- 

 piness of man's life, as well as that which he derives from 

 the contemplation of the world to come, and the cultiva- 

 tion of his relation to it (pure religion). The other sen- 

 timents may be briefly enumerated, their names being 

 sufficient in general to denote their functions — firm- 

 ness, hope, cautiousness, self-esteem, love of approbation, 

 secretiveness, marvellousness, constructiveness, imitation, 

 combativeness, destructiveness, concentrativeness, adhe- 

 siveness, love of the opposite sex, love of offspring, 

 alimentiveness, and love of life. Through these facul- 

 ties, man is connected with the external world, and 

 supplied with active impulses to maintain his place in it 

 as an individual and as a species. There is also a faculty 

 (language) for expressing, by whatever means (signs, 

 gestures, looks, conventional terms in speech), the ideas 

 which arise in the mind. There is a particular state of 

 each of these faculties, when the ideas of objects once 

 formed by it are revived or reproduced, a process which 

 seems to be intimately allied with some of the pheno- 



