ERROR NOT FROM THE INTELLIGENCE, BUT THE WILL. The proposition which I lay down is this, _that the Intelligence, in its appropriate exercise, can seldom if ever, make wrong affirmations; that wrong opinions, admissions, pre-judgments, &c., are in most, if not all instances, nothing else than phenomena, or assumptions of Will_. If the Intelligence can make wrong affirmations, it is important to determine in what department of its action such affirmations may be found. PRIMARY FACULTIES CANNOT ERR. Let us first contemplate the action of the _primary_ intellectual faculties--Sense, or the faculty of _external_ perception; Consciousness, the faculty of _internal_ observation; and Reason, the faculty which gives us _necessary_ and _universal truths_. The two former faculties give us phenomena external and internal. The latter gives us the logical antecedents of phenomena, thus perceived and affirmed, to wit: the ideas of substance, cause, space, time, &c. In the action of these faculties, surely, real error is impossible. SO OF THE SECONDARY FACULTIES. Let us now contemplate the action of the secondary faculties, the Understanding and Judgment. The former unites the elements given by the three primary faculties into _notions_ of particular objects. The latter classifies these notions according to qualities perceived. Here, also, we find no place for wrong affirmations. The understanding can only combine the elements actually given by the primary faculties. The Judgment can classify only according to qualities actually perceived. Thus I might go over the entire range of the Intelligence, and show, that seldom, if ever, in its appropriate action, it can make wrong affirmations. ERROR, WHERE FOUND.--ASSUMPTION.