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DAVID ANDERSON- BERRY, M.D., LL.D., ETC., ON 



of the man who closes both eyes and says, " Now I begin to see ! " 

 we are on the high road to the discovery of all the mysteries 

 of life and death and future destiny. 



(4) Kealism. This is what I denominate the attitude of the 

 thinker towards the world and himself. Matter, spirit, time, 

 space, are to him the four great realities. He accepts them 

 with the facts, attributes, phenomena, laws and principles, 

 accompanying them as the truth. 



I would add here that this is the philosophy of the Bible. Our 

 Lord Jesus Christ, whose teaching is truth without any admixture 

 with error, tells us that " God is spirit." The first verse of the 

 Bible affirms the truth of Eealism. " In the beginning " (time) 

 " God " (spirit) " created the heaven and the earth " (matter 

 and space). 



You may say that all this is more metaphysics than psychology, 

 but please remember what Mrs. Browning says poetically (and 

 Ernst Haeckel says aggressively), 



" A wider metaphysics would not harm our physics." 



And Aristotle two thousand years ago wrote that they who 

 forsake the nature of things or axiomatic first truths will not and 

 cannot find anything surer on which to build. 



Having dealt with the primary faculties of the mind let me just 

 mention the secondary ones. These are four in number. 



(1) The Understanding or conception forming faculty. From 

 the elements given by the three primary faculties the Under- 

 standing builds up conceptions or notions, particular and general. 



(2) The Judgment or logical faculty. It affirms the relations 

 existing between conceptions or notions. Its declarations are 

 of two classes, intuitive and deduced. Where we have the 

 subject implying the predicate there we have an intuitive and 

 necessary judgment. For instance, body implies space ; succession, 

 time ; phenomena, substance ; events, a cause : and, things 

 equal to the same thing are equal to one another. 



Where we find that the subject does not imply the predicate 

 but the relationship between them is directly and immediately 

 perceived, the declaration is a contingent judgment. When the 

 relation is discerned not immediately but through other judgments . 

 we have an inferred or derivative judgment. 



(3) The Memory or Kecollection. This is the associating faculty. 



(4) The Imagination. This is the blending power by which the 

 elements of thought given by all the other faculties are formed 



