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mind. You think. Here then is the exercise of one 

 faculty — the faculty of thinking. 



II. You continue the reading, and become conscious 

 of something more than single thought. You become 

 indignant at the wrong that has been done me. You 

 feel that no punishment can be too severe for my perse- 

 cutor. This action of mind is much more than thought. 

 It is accompanied by another and quite distinct ex- 

 perience — feeling. Here then is the exercise of a second 

 faculty — that of feeling. 



III. Nor does the mental process cease here. Thought 

 and feeling lead to action. You resolve what to do. 

 You hasten fco the relief of your friend. Thereby you 

 have exercised the faculty of voluntary choice. 



Thus we have three general divisions of mental action 

 — thought, feeling, will. Somewhere within the depart- 

 ment of thought will be found the faculty of memory. 



I recently met, for the iirst time, a person whose 

 presence impressed me. Had my optic nerve been 

 paralyzed one moment before our meeting, my sense of 

 sight would have been lacking, and to-day I could not 

 say to you that I had seen that person. But the optic 

 nerve does not see. It is only an organ whose function 

 is to receive impressions, transmit them to the brain, 

 and thus occasion sensations. Thus does mind, through 

 the medium of some sense, take direct cognizance of exter- 

 nal objects. That faculty whose function it is to present 

 to the mind, through some of the senses, impressions of 

 objects external and sensible, as now and here present, 

 is called the presentative faculty. 



But I am now conscious of having seen such a man. I 

 have power to conceive of him in his absence, as though 

 present, and thus I discover that mind has the power to 

 represent, and this power we call the representative 

 faculty. 



A still further study would reveal a power of the 



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