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and those qualities in each object, which are, in the present connection, points of interest. Agreements are sought as links of thought, to the dismission of differences. Thus we have abstraction, the separation of one quality or relation in attention from every other; generalization, the detection of one quality, one form of action, one relation in many diverse objects; conception in its limited sense, the uniting of several qualities under one generic or specific word, to the exclusion of individual distinctions; classification, the uniting of conceptions into a complete system, covering some department of knowledge. Analysis and synthesis are the same processes differently expressed. The first process, that of abstraction, which is the foundation of the other three, is analytic; while the remaining three are synthetic. By analysis we separate concrete wholes into their intellectual parts; by synthesis, we recombine these parts in new ways for intellectual ends. These, then, as the various methods and fruits of a fertile judgment, require no farther attention in a discussion of faculties, but belong to logic, which treats of the laws of thought, of the several forms of activity which the one power, the judgment, presents. The extent of field and the complex results which belong to this faculty are evinced by the fact, that a distinct science is set apart to it, and the laws of thinking or judging are discussed in a separate and complete form as logic.

Very simple sentences are a plexus of judgments. They are primary statements in which many other statements are included. A brief affirmation has the same involution of judgments as a simple perception. The central assertion only assumes the full form of a judgment, while every adjective, adverb, conjunctional and propositional clause, every inflection, modify the primary affirmation by a subordinate statement. The giving of a name, the application