88 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO HI. 



*' These acts repeated rise from joys or pains, 

 And swell Imagination's flowing trains; 

 So in dread dreams amid the silent night 

 Grim spectre-forms the shuddering sense affright;; 

 Or Beauty's idol-image, as it moves, 

 Charms the closed eye with graces, smiles, and loves; 70 

 Each passing form the pausing heart delights, 

 And young SENSATION every nerve excites. 



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Oft from sensation quick VOLITION springs, 

 When pleasure thrills us, or when anguish stings; 



And young Sensation, 1. 72. Sensation is an exertion or change of 

 the central parts of the sensorium or of the whole of it, beginning 

 at some of those extreme parts of it which reside in the muscles or 

 organs of sense. Sensitive ideas are those which are preceded by the 

 sensation of pleasure or pain, are termed Imagination, and constitute 

 our dreams and reveries. 



Quick Volition springs, \. 73. Volition is an exertion or change of 

 the central parts of the sensorium, or of the whole of it terminating 

 in some of those extreme parts of it which reside in the muscles and 

 organs of sense. The vulgar use of the word memory is too unlimited 

 for our purpose: those ideas which we voluntarily recall are here 

 termed ideas of recollection, as when we will to repeat the alphabet 

 backwards. And those ideas which are suggested to us by preceding 

 ideas are here termed ideas of suggestion, as whilst we repeat the 



