The Gavelyte, April 1910

I, I l'III 1;.\l•,L'l'J, hll\ I' ,ll'IJllll' >11. H.r im ,gin:, inn \\'t' lllotliry a11il t·nl 1rg" 1111r llr'l111 i111111 . It. th•111ght \\'1' lor111 r'o>flC'P(llH, judgnwnt~. pr11p11 iLion!-1, and y t"m fl JI nwmnn 111:t) h,•. p1111t.111pn111.1 11r n•:11l_v and IPnaeionH nr, in other w11rd • it mu,· 11•qt11rP nH,r" nr lt•:-:H PffPrt t,, rr·<·;ill what ,,., dPsin·. ,'pontnn1>111J lllPrHury is natnral nnd j.; dtH' m11rt• t.,1 th,, q11alitr of ph)'Hir:tl 11rg, nizatinn than to a oriat,ion. OthN thing" b ing Pqual a 1-1pontan •1111:-i mP.mory i has1•d upon a brain whirh :..howH plasticity and i: po!-l!'PR (>i) of thP fihr~~ p, peeially adapt Pd t.o ph, Riral imprf'l:!:-1ion. ant! retentivetwFs. WhilP hP lenal'inu:-i 111e111,1ry iti dPvel,,pPd by as!<c)('iating th fact to bP r mPmhered with a number of fallliliar fact:-i. 'I'he natural nwmory c·annot lw innf'a. ,,d nnr improved in P"'''Pr or quality. It. Pfficieney iR depPndent at all timPH upon the phy:-ii1•al condition Thi> tenacious m<'mory may bP develurwd by a.ny :-i~·stem which is ealrulated to increa:- and trPngthen the asRociative power. Then' are as many degr e, of memory a tht-r ar indiviriuahi. Iniaginat ion works ov r the material funii hed by the i>nses anf! Cllns-'.inus, e.~:. It, C'hange, thi.., material l,y combination and detraction. The former methoJ produces imagt> made up of percPpts not usually ,·on– nPcted and the latter methrd takt- away elemt-nts ordinarily found in perceptible or conscioo object·. All product:. of imaginatit>n are individual likt' their originals. 'l'he power of imagination id used in all activities of I h·• intellect and all occu pations. Thought is the power by which we form anil apply concepts. Concept, are genera.I idea derived from a CC>mbination of percept':! and memory and imaginative factor . Thot i · the crowning activity of the intellect. Our ccncept are concrete wh en thes represent object as they are. ThPy are ab:tract when they take a quality of an object and refer to it a. an indi– \·idual existence. Thought is extensive when it cover the individual of a clas and intensive when it bring. out the qualities of a class. Concepts become judgments when thf'y are expanded. They bt>come propositions when they unite jodgm;;nts into a logical 'tflt.ement, and they become a . rtem when they boild up a clasified arrangement of facts. The variou.il rt>prest>ntative power are not merely ba ed upon the presentative power but fro:o the very 'tart of pre entative knowledge co-operate to a greater or le3s extent with the lower mental activities. With this barely more than an outline. wr bring our si>ries to a rlo'e, stopping ~rnly long enough to add that then· ran be no cla sification of the feeling ; for they are as various a !, 11 th tht> inrli\'idual. anrl the circumstanee and doubtless are only reactions