A new treatise of the art of thinking; or : a compleat system of reflections, concerning the conduct and improvement of the mind ; illustrated with variety of characters and examples drawn from ordinary occurrences of life . repre-fent to my felf a Tree as though I adually faw it, thoughmy Eye is flint at the fame time. Laftly, when we think ofany Thing without reprefenting it under any Image, withoutconceiving it under any corporeal Form, we make ufe ofthe pure Underfiandlng, We fliall fpeak particularly of thisin the following Chapter. Besides thefe three Faculties, we experience in our felv
A new treatise of the art of thinking; or : a compleat system of reflections, concerning the conduct and improvement of the mind ; illustrated with variety of characters and examples drawn from ordinary occurrences of life . repre-fent to my felf a Tree as though I adually faw it, thoughmy Eye is flint at the fame time. Laftly, when we think ofany Thing without reprefenting it under any Image, withoutconceiving it under any corporeal Form, we make ufe ofthe pure Underfiandlng, We fliall fpeak particularly of thisin the following Chapter. Besides thefe three Faculties, we experience in our felvesa^i//, Inclinations.^ Vi\; Faculties more aftive, andwhich determine us to think of certain Objefts rather thanof others, and contribute a thoufand Ways to vary our Ideas:For we conceive Things very differently, according as ourInclinations prepojQTefs us in their Favour, or to their Pre^judice. We have miOreover a Memory., that is to fay, aPower to retain in fome fort fuch Ideas as have once beenprefented to us, and to recoiled them again when we haveoccafion. All thefe Faculties have their Defefts and theirUfes; and it is of Importance to find out the Means tocorred the one, and to perfeft the CHAP. Sect. L the Art c/ T h i n k i n g . 15-
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