If we were to analyze the word Sorrow, which is held to be a mental feeling, we should find it to be transferred from bodily sufferance: for the mind, is incapable of creating a term correctly expressive of its state, and therefore, it became necessary to borrow it from _soreness_ of body.--_See Mr. Tooke's Diversions of Purley, vol. ii. p. 207_, where _sore_, _sorry_, and _sorrow_ are clearly made out to be the same word. It is customary to speak of a man, of accurate perceptions, and of another, who has grand and luminous conceptions of human nature. Perception, from _per_, and _capio_ to take, seize, grasp, through the medium of the organs of sense, being implied. But to take, seize, and grasp are the operations of the hand, and can only, by extreme courtesy, be attributed to mind. Mr. Dugald Stewart, the most thoughtful and intelligent of modern metaphysicians, has said, "By conception I mean that power of the mind which enables it to form a notion of an absent object of perception, or of a sensation which it has formerly felt."--_Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, 8vo. p. 133._ This definition means merely memory; and by perusing attentively the whole chapter the reader will be convinced of it. Conception, from _cum_ and _capio_, has been applied to mind from the physical sense of embracing, comprehending, or probably from the notion of being impregnated with the subject. It may be remarked, that these three terms, by which conception has been explained, have been all applied to mental operation. The words reason and reasoning, I believe, in most languages, strictly imply numeration, reckoning, proportion; the Latin _ratio_, _ratiocinor_, _ratiocinator_ are sufficient examples. A curious coincidence between the Latin _ratio_ and the Gothic _rathjo_, together with some pertinent and interesting observations, may be seen in Ihre's Glossarium Svio-gothicum, _p._ 393, _art._ Raekna. As we now acknowledge the science of number to be the purest system of reasoning, a system, on which all persons agree, and so unlike medicine, politics, and divinity, concerning which there is a constant, and hostile variety of sentiment, it adds some force to the argument. Indeed, Mr. Locke, who almost personifies reason, after having painfully sifted this matter, appears to be much of the same way of thinking: he says, "Reason, though it penetrates into the depth of the sea and earth, elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast spaces and large rooms of this mighty fabrick, _yet it comes far short of the real extent of even corporeal being_; and there are many instances wherein it fails us: as,