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the propensities and sentiments, the latter will start into activity in the same 

 manner, but not in so powerful a degree, as if their appropriate objects were 

 externally present. The vivacity of the feeling, in such cases, will be in proper- 

 tion to the strength of the conception, and the energy of the propensities and 

 sentiments together. If we conceive inwardly an object in distress, and benevo- 

 lence be powerful, compassion will be felt, and tears will sometimes flow from the 

 emotion produced. Hence he who has any propensity or sentiment predomi- 

 nantly active from internal excitement, will have his intellect frequently filled 

 with conceptions fitted to gratify it. 



These faculties have not the attributes of perception, conception, memory, 

 imagination : they have the attribute of sensation alone ; that is to say, when they 

 are active, a sensation or emotion is experienced. Hence sensation is an accom- 

 paniment of the activity of all the faculties which feel, and of the nervous system 

 in general ; but sensation is no faculty in itself. 



The laws of the Knowing and Reflecting faculties are different. These 

 faculties form ideas, and perceive relations; they constitute will; and they minister 

 to the gratification of the other faculties which only feel. 



1^/, These faculties, as well as the former, may be active from internal causes, 

 and then the kinds of ideas which they are fitted to form, are presented involun- 

 tarily to the mind. The musician feels the notes flowing on him uncalled for. 

 A man in whom Number is powerful and active, calculates by a natural impulse. 



9,dly^ These faculties may be excited by the presentment of the external 

 objects fitted to call them into activity; and, 



SJ/y, They may be excited to activity by an impulse from the propensities 

 or sentiments. 



When excited by the presentment of external objects, the objects are per- 

 ceived, and this act is called Perception. Perception is not a separate power, 

 but results from the lowest degree of activity of these faculties ; and, if no idea is 

 formed when the object is presented, the individual is destitute of the power of 

 manifesting the faculty whose function is to perceive objects of that kind. Thus, 

 when tones are produced, he who cannot perceive the melody of them, is destitute 

 of the power of manifesting the faculty of tune. Each of Them perforins percep- 

 tion in its own sphere. 



When these faculties are excited by an act of the will, the ideas which they 

 had previously formed are recalled : this act is named Memory, which results from 

 the activity of each of these faculties; but it is no faculty in itself. Tune 

 remembers music; Individuality, facts; and so on. Time acting along wath any 



