28 July 1814

Logic

Ch.4.IV.V.VI.VII. Functions &c.

'.1.IV. Faculties.

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Descending lower and lower with Logic for its guide into the region of particulars, sooner or later the mind would come to - that list of faculties, which as already intimated, agree not only in nature but with little exception even in names, with the articles already brought to view under the general name of Operations.

In number,- and, with little exception, even in name,- these faculties may be, and for the purpose of correct and compleat instruction will require to be, considered as corresponding with the several operations of which a view has just been given: so[?] many operations, so many faculties: corresponding to each operation a faculty considered and spoken of as if enabling a man to perform that same operation. (a)

Note (a)

(a) An operation, as there may be hereafter occasion to shew, an operation, as being a species of motion, has something of reality in it: a faculty is the name of an entity, a sort of person or instrument purely fictitious, a sort of Workman by whom the Operation in question is performed. Misrepresentation in this form - falshood in a word for so it may with strict truth be termed, in so far as the falshood is considered as pure from guilt in every Shape it may with strict truth be stated - falshood, howsoever pregnant with, and in no slight degree scotch[?] in, deception, is not the less indispensably necessary to the several purposes - the purest not less than to the most impure.