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of these faculties gives the impression of the previous existence of the ideas recalled, 

 which impression distinguishes Memory from Conception or Imagination. 



When these faculties are powerfully active, from internal excitement, the 

 ideas they have previously formed are vividly and rapidly conceived, and the act 

 of forming them, when not associated with the impression of past time, is styled 

 Conception or Imagination. Each executes conception in its own sphere. 

 When conceptions of absent external objects become vivid and permanent, through 

 disease of the organs, the individual believes in the actual presence of the objects, 

 and is deluded by phantoms or visions. This is the explanation of the cases cited 

 in Dr. Hibbert's work on Apparitions. Great size or disease of the organ of 

 Wonder, contributes especially to this effect. 



And, lastly. Judgment, in the philosophical sense, belongs to the reflecting 

 faculties alone. The knowing faculties may be said, in one sense, to judge; as, 

 for example, the faculty of Tune may be agreeably or disagreeably affected, and, in 

 this way, may be said to judge of sounds; but judgment, in the proper sense of 

 the word, is a perception of relation or of fitness, or of the connection between 

 means and an end, and it belongs to the reflecting faculties. These faculties have 

 perception, memory, and imagination also. He who possesses them powerfully, 

 perceives and conceives, remembers and imagines, processes of deduction, or ideas 

 of abstract relations, with great facility. 



Practical Judgment in the affairs of life, depends on a harmonious combination 

 of all the organs, particularly of the propensities and sentiments, in just proportions. 

 In order to act rightly, it is as necessary to feel correctly as to reason deeply. 



Attention is not a faculty of the mind, but merely consists in a vivid 

 application of the faculties which form ideas. Unless an organ be adequately 

 possessed, the objects of which it takes cognisance cannot be attended to by an 

 effort of the will. The intellectual powers are greatly assisted in producing 

 attention by Concentrativeness and Firmness. 



Association expresses the mutual influence of the faculties. 



The principles of Association must be sought for in the constitution of the 

 faculties, and not in the relations of particular ideas. In using Association as an 

 instrument of artificial memory, we ought to keep always in view, that every 

 individual will associate, with greatest facility, ideas with those particular things 

 which he has the greatest natural facility in perceiving. For example: he who 

 has Number most powerful, will associate words most easily with numbers ; he 

 who has Form most powerful, will associate words most easily with shapes ; he 

 who has Locality most powerful, will associate words most easily with position; 

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