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The first head of this division might be regarded as coin- 

 cident with those mental operations commonly included under 

 the term imagination, which he would occasionally use, as a 

 convenient term, and of familiar use. 



The author next proceeded to show that, as the ideas he 

 had described were essentially those of sensible properties, it 

 must be a consequence that their combination must be sensi- 

 ble associations, and therefore affecting the mind, in whatever 

 degree, in the same manner as the sensible presence of such 

 objects, had they any real or external existence. Such effects 

 would be very indistinct in some (probably in most) minds, 

 and very intense in others. It would be apparent from these 

 considerations, that in one class of writers, or artists, the mind 

 constructs a combination by mere rules, and in another from a 

 distinct and sensible conception ; and further, that in the ana- 

 lysis of writings or works of art, some indications might be 

 discoverable of these two different modes of operation. 



There was also another consideration, which, though 

 seemingly leading to a difficulty, would very much tend to aid 

 in the clear exemplification of this process. Its nature being 

 to produce effects similar to the known effects of present reality, 

 may be traced more clearly by comparison with them. The 

 author would, he said, avail himself of this inference as a 

 means of illustration. 



He then proceeded to cite various examples from standard 

 poets, in which he traced the indications of distinct presence, 

 or conception of presence, which he severally contrasted with 

 conjectural cases of the opposite mode of artistic construction, 

 without those conceptions. 



The author next proceeded to notice other kinds of exam- 

 ples in the conception of characters, events, and in translation 

 of the thoughts of others, in which he showed that the differ- 

 ence of language could frequently be only remedied by equi- 

 valents supplied by the aid of the original conception. 



