A Philosophical Treatise On the Nature And Constitution of Man
A Philosophical Treatise On the Nature And Constitution of Man
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Each of the intellectual faculties is capable of improvement by cultivation to an almost infinite extent, and is dependent on such a course for reaching maturity. It is also rendered more energetic and more powerful by this means. By exercise the intellectual organs of the body become better fitted for exer- tion, and the mind acquires greater ascendancy and control in the direction of them.* The general enlargement and improvement of the mind by this method is, however, a topic far too importa...nt to be dis- Eosed of summarily. Its discussion at length has, therefore, een reserved as the subject for a separate chapter in this Treatise.* » Lord Bacon remarks that the inteUectaal powers have fewer means to work upon, than the will or body of man ; but the one that prevaileth, that is, exercises, worketh more forcibly in them than in the rest. — B.elj^9 qfthe Intellectual Potoers, * Vide post, chap. viL Digitized by Google CHAPTER IL THE fACULTT OP UKDBESTANDING, 1. Quality and Constitution of this Faculty , and of its Suh- ordinate Constituent Capacities^ As the first intellectual operation which the mind of every otie performs is that of knowing, so the understanding, by which that act is achieved, must be rsmked as the first in order among the intellectual faculties*^ And as the senses are the first excited of all the powers possessed by an animated being, so the understanding is exercised the earliest of all the faculties of the mind, and is probably exerted very soon after the soul is united to the body.* To the senses the understanding is indebted for supplying it with intellectual food, and it is the only faculty immediately connected with them.' The infant, immediately on its emerging from the womb, and, it may be, even before that period, is actively at work through the instru- mentality of this faculty in imbibing a vast store of ideas for its use in after-life.
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Each of the intellectual faculties is capable of improvement by cultivation to an almost infinite extent, and is dependent on such a course for reaching maturity. It is also rendered more energetic and more powerful by this means. By exercise the intellectual organs of the body become better fitted for exer- tion, and the mind acquires greater ascendancy and control in the direction of them.* The general enlargement and improvement of the mind by this method is, however, a topic far too importa...nt to be dis- Eosed of summarily. Its discussion at length has, therefore, een reserved as the subject for a separate chapter in this Treatise.* » Lord Bacon remarks that the inteUectaal powers have fewer means to work upon, than the will or body of man ; but the one that prevaileth, that is, exercises, worketh more forcibly in them than in the rest. — B.elj^9 qfthe Intellectual Potoers, * Vide post, chap. viL Digitized by Google CHAPTER IL THE fACULTT OP UKDBESTANDING, 1. Quality and Constitution of this Faculty , and of its Suh- ordinate Constituent Capacities^ As the first intellectual operation which the mind of every otie performs is that of knowing, so the understanding, by which that act is achieved, must be rsmked as the first in order among the intellectual faculties*^ And as the senses are the first excited of all the powers possessed by an animated being, so the understanding is exercised the earliest of all the faculties of the mind, and is probably exerted very soon after the soul is united to the body.* To the senses the understanding is indebted for supplying it with intellectual food, and it is the only faculty immediately connected with them.' The infant, immediately on its emerging from the womb, and, it may be, even before that period, is actively at work through the instru- mentality of this faculty in imbibing a vast store of ideas for its use in after-life.
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