_Of Smith._--_Sydney Smith_ regards imagination in much the same light--a faculty in which association plays the principal part, assisted by judgment, taste, etc., amounting, in fact, to much the same thing that we call invention; the process by which a poet constructs a drama, or a machinist a steam-engine, being essentially the same. _Of Wayland and Upham._--_Wayland_, in common with most of the authors already cited, makes imagination a complex faculty, involving abstraction, and association; "the power by which, from simple conceptions already existing in the mind, we form complex wholes or images." Some form of abstraction necessarily precedes the exercise of this power. The different elements of a conception must be first mentally severed before we can reunite them in a new conception. "It is this power of reuniting the several elements of a conception at will, that is, properly, imagination. Imagination may then be designated the power of combination." _Upham_ takes the same view. The same view, essentially, is also given by _Amandè Jacques_, a French writer of distinction. _View of Tissot._--_Tissot_, as also many of the German philosophers, gives imagination the double province of recalling sensible intuitions, objects of sight, such as we have known them, and also of conceiving objects altogether differently disposed from our original perceptions of them, varied from the reality. The former they call imagination _reproductive_, the latter, _creative_. That form of the imagination which is purely spontaneous, in distinction from the voluntary, they term fancy. _Of Coleridge and Mahan._--_Coleridge_, followed by _Mahan_, regards imagination as the power which recombines the several elements of thought into conceptions, which conform not to _mere existences_, but to _certain fundamental ideas in the mind itself_, ideas of the beautiful, sublime, etc. _These Definitions agree in what._--These definitions, it will be perceived, with scarcely an exception make imagination to be a complex faculty, and regard it as merely _the power of combining_, in new forms, the various elements of thought already in the mind. The correctness of each of these ideas has been already discussed. INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES. PART THIRD. THE REFLECTIVE POWER. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.