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4. Conscience not an intellectual or moral instinct.
5. Spiritual conscience no separate kind of itself
6. Conscience to what extent the voice of God in the soul
8. Office and influence of conscience
7. Essential quality and constitution of conscience
9. Involuntariness and irresistibility of its impulses
10. Defects and perversions incident to conscience
11. Conscience capable of cultivation
12. Conscience how far common to animals as well as to man
BOOK III.
THE MENTAL NATURE AND CONSTITUTION OF MAN.
I. THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES.
1. Distinction between, and peculiar proper province of the
mind, the intellectual faculties, and the will
171
2. Various and unremitting action of the mind
173
3. Nature of the intellectual faculties, and their relation to
the soul.
179
4. Division and distribution of the intellectual faculties, and
their distinctive capacities
184
5. Character of mind from the relative extent of its different
faculties and capacities
198
6. Cast and consortment together of faculties and capacities
to constitute a mind of high talent
202
7. Endowment of inspiration innate
205
9. Dependence of the faculties and qualities of the mind on
the constitution of the material frame.
10. Growth and development of the different faculties and
capacities
8. Comparative variation of different minds as regards the
innate qualities they possess
1. Quality and constitution of this faculty, and of its sub-
ordinate constituent capacities
6. Peculiar functions and adaptation of this faculty, and of
each of its constituent capacities.
231
7. Acquisition of knowledge through the understanding alone 231
8. Origin and use of language
238
9. Reality and limit of human knowledge
259
CONTENTS.
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III-THE FACULTY OF REASON.
2. The capacity of sense
5. Illustration of the nature of these capacities
9. Essence of truth, and efficiency of the faculty of reason
304
IV. THE FACULTY OF GENIUS.
6. Distinctive functions, operation, and application of each of
these different capacities
337
7. Corresponding character in the action of each of these
346
8. Art the especial province of the faculty of genius
9. Extent and limit of the operations of genius
4. Characteristic varieties in this endowment, and in both
7. Improvement of the memory by education and exercise
8. Defects and diseases especially incident to the memory
9. Essential quality of the memory
383
386
10. Distinctive features of the memory in man and animals
390
394
VI.-THE CONCURRENT OPERATION AND RECIPROCAL INFLUENCE OF
THE VARIOUS MEDIAL, MORAL, AND MENTAL ENDOW-
MENTS AND POWERS OF THE SOUL.
1. Comprehensive character of the mental constitution.
2. Control by the mind over the various voluntary actions of
each kind
399
402
3. Direction and bias of the intellectual character.
407
4. Co-operation and co-aid of the different faculties and
414
5. Reciprocal mutual relation between the mental, moral,
and medial endowments and powers
419
6. Peculiar relation of the higher capacities to the lower
endowments.
429
7. Balance of contending influences, and harmonious opera-
tion of the whole system
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432
8.
Simultaneous action of different faculties and capacities,
to what extent effected.
438
9. Celerity in action of the different faculties and capacities. 440
VII. MENTAL DISCIPLINE AND CULTIVATION.
1. The nature, scope, and object of education in general
2. Medial and moral, as well as mental discipline and culti-
vation
445
455
3. Each distinct faculty and capacity independently im
provable by education.
459
4. Education of the understanding, by the acquisition of
knowledge
461
5. Education of the reason, by the investigation of science
6. Education of genius, by the study of art
466
470
education
7. Each particular capacity should receive its appropriate
8. Opposite tendency of certain intellectual pursuits
9. Development and invigoration of the mind, dependent
upon discipline and cultivation
10. Mental disease, its essence, source and development.
11. Mental pathology, its principles and its end
12. The complete development, discipline, and cultivation of
the mind, the ultimate aim in the study of the
constitution of man
473
476
478
484
498
503
BOOK II.
THE MORAL NATURE AND CONSTITUTION OF MAN.
VOL. II.
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