Asking for
The Who? Will responds, The Person.
The Ought? Conscience " The Right.
The How? Imagination " The Idea.
The Why? Reason " The Truth.
The Thus? Fancy " The Image.
The Where? Understanding " The Fact.
The When? Memory " The Event.
The Which? Sense " The Thing.
The What? Instinct " The Life.
In accordance with this gradation of gifts, man and animals may be
classified as to their measures of intelligence respectively; instinct
being taken as the initial gift and prompter of the rest in their order
of genesis, growth and adaptability: man alone, when fully unfolded in
harmony, being capable of ranging throughout the entire scale.[I]
[Footnote I: "One would think nothing were easier for us
than to know our own mind, discern what was our main scope
and drift, and what we proposed to ourselves as our end in
the several occurrences of our lives. But our thoughts have
such an obscure, implicit language, that it is the hardest
thing in the world to make them speak out distinctly; and
for this reason the right method is to give them voice and
accent. And this, in our default, is what the philosophers
endeavor to do to our hand, when, holding out a kind of
vocal looking-glass, they draw sound out of our breast, and
instruct us to personate ourselves in the plainest
manner."--LORD SHAFTESBURY.]
Thus:
[Illustration: Sketch of human head marked with Instinct, Sense, Memory,
Understanding, Fancy, Reason, Imagination, Conscience, Personality]
CLASS
I. Instinct, Sense, Memory, Understanding, Fancy, Reason,
Imagination, Conscience, Personality.
II. Instinct, Sense, Memory, Understanding, Fancy, Reason,
Imagination, Conscience.
III. Instinct, Sense, Memory, Understanding, Fancy, Reason,
Imagination.
IV. Instinct, Sense, Memory, Understanding, Fancy, Reason.
V. Instinct, Sense, Memory, Understanding, Fancy.
VI. Instinct, Sense, Memory, Understanding.
VII. Instinct, Sense, Memory.
VIII. Instinct, Sense.
MAN IS
Spiritual as he experiences, Personality, Thought
Moral " Choice, Conscience.
Intellectual " Imagination, Reason.
Natural " Fancy, Understanding.
Brute " Memory, Sense.
Demonic " Appetite, Passion.
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