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any of our faculties and sentiments ; and, 

 therefore, if Gall's and Spurzheim's opinions 

 of the structure of the brain be true, that 

 which is attentive must have communica- 

 tion with all parts of this organ. Nor can 

 we do less than admit that what is atten- 

 tive to all our sensations and faculties 

 must of itself be perceptive and intelligent. 

 Reason and thought are inferences from 

 information obtained by means of the vital 

 actions, and cannot therefore be considered 

 as the immediate effect of such actions. If, 

 then, we remember our own thoughts, it 

 must be in consequence of their recurrence 

 to that which thinks. It is difficult to re- 

 member them unless we connect them 

 with objects of sense, with something re- 

 newable by the recurrence of vital actions. 

 Brilliant imaginations, judicious inferences, 

 new and seemingly correct views of sub- 

 jects, may be conceived in thought, and yet 

 lost from not thus registering and fixing 



