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Powers of the Mind
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary
or Are those faculties by which we think, reason, judge, &c. "They are so various, " says Dr. Reid, "so many, so connected, and complicated in most of their operations, that there never has been any division of them proposed which is not liable to considerable objections. The most common division is that of understand and will. Under the will we comprehend out active powers, and all that lead to action, or influence the mind to act; such as appetites, passions, affections. The understanding comprehends our contemplative powers, by which we perceive objects; by which we conceive or remember them; by which we analyze or compound them; and by which we judge and reason concerning them. Or the intellectual powers are commonly divided into simple apprehension, judgment, and reasoning."
See Reid on the Active Powers, also on the Human Mind, and the Intellectual Powers; Locke on the Understanding. For the influence Christianity has had on the moral and intellectual powers, see White's admirable Sermons, ser. 9.
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Buck, Charles. Entry for 'Powers of the Mind'. Charles Buck Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/cbd/p/powers-of-the-mind.html. 1802.
