488 INTELLECTUAL SYMBOLISM. 
MMR represents the rational form of Propensity (MM, R), and the sentimental form of 
Motivity (M, MR). 
117. ReEsotution may be ranked without much impropriety, either under Will or 
Energy. The more common usage, however, seems to imply that a man may have the 
will to resolve, without the requisite energy to perform, and whatever energy may be em- 
braced in Resolution, seems therefore to be subordinate and not paramount. We there- 
fore regard it as the rational form of Will (SS, R), and the energetic form of Spontaneity 
(or Spontaneity tending to Energy) (S, SR). 
118. CoNcENTRATIVENESS might also be classed either under Will or Energy. It re- 
sembles the faculty of Resolution, but its character is rather more rational, which is indi- 
cated by giving precedence to the symbol of secondary Rationality (S, RS, instead of 
S, SR). 
119. DiscurstvENEss, or the faculty of logical inference, seems to involve the exercise of 
Understanding, but that exercise is consequent, and not antecedent. Logical reasoning 
implies comparison and judgment, and its faculty may therefore be properly considered as 
the rational faculty of Judgment (RS, R). : 
120. Axssrraction, or the faculty which separates the essential part of any idea from 
what is merely accidental, contradictory, or alien,* seems to involve the exercise of Un- 
derstanding upon the determinations of Judgment, and its symbol is therefore RRS. 
121. Some of the remaining terms are used with such breadth of meaning, that their 
vulgar acceptation is not precisely defined by the symbolic boundaries which we have 
given them. ‘This incomplete accordance invites special discussion as to the propriety of 
our limitation, and the desirability of seeking terms more exact and less ambiguous, for 
the places they occupy. 
122. The office of the several secondary faculties may perhaps be rendered clearer by 
the following homogeneous classification : 
1. Class of pure Motivity. 
MMM. Proclivity. The simplest form of disposition to action, on the presentation of 
objective impulse. 
2. Class of duplicate Motivity and Spontaneity. 
* « Abstraction is the selection by the mind of those partial phenomena which admit of being subsumed under 
one principle. Now it is clearly impossible that this uniting principle should originate in the objects, for another 
principle would always be necessary in the subject, in order to recognize the unity of the principle in the objects. 
The principle therefore originates in the subject, and as this is valid of all our observation of phenomena, it follows 
that the sphere of the application and validity of causality is limited by subjective principles of thought, and 
cannot be predicated of those things with which the subject has no concern, @. e., of things which are not objects 
for it at all.” Solly, p. 69.” 
