CANTO in. PROGRESS OF THE MIND. 89 



Hence Recollection calls with voice sublime 



Immersed ideas from the wrecks of Time, 



With potent charm in lucid trains displays 



Eventful stories of forgotten days. 



Hence Reason's efforts good with ill contrast, 



Compare the present, future, and the past; 80 



Each passing moment, unobserved restrain 



The wild discordancies of Fancy's train; 



But leave unchecked the Night's ideal streams, 



Or, sacred Muses! your meridian dreams. 



alphabet in the usual order; when by habits previously acquired B is 

 suggested by A, and C by B, without any effort of deliberation. 

 Reasoning is that operation of the sensorium by which we excite 

 two or many tribes of ideas, and then reexcite the ideas in which 

 they differ or correspond. If we determine this difference, it is 

 called judgment; if we in vain endeavour to determine it, it is called 

 doubting. 



If we reexcite the ideas in which they differ, it is called distin- 

 guishing. If we reexcite those in which they correspond, it is called 

 comparing. 



Each passing moment, 1.81. During our waking hours, we per- 

 petually compare the passing trains of our ideas with the known 

 system of nature, and reject those which are incongruous with it; 

 this is explained in Zoonomia, Sect. XVII. 3. 7. and is there termed 

 Intuitive Analogy. When we sleep, the faculty of volition ceases to 

 act, and in consequence the uncompared trains of ideas become 

 incongruous and form the farrago of our dreams; in which we never 

 experience any surprise, or sense of novelty. 



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