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gives it its energy. The logical insight discloses the logical relation, and so welds the conclusion to its premises. Thus also the memory renews those impalpable, vanished relations expressed by place and time, and, in doing so, sets things once more as they were.
The primary powers in association are memory and judgment. Memory restores things as they have been phenominally offered to us under the connections of time and place. Judgment unites images and ideas by the relations of resemblance, causation, involution. The imagination, working with both these faculties, combines its images under all applicable ideas. We have thus, as expressing the relation of ideas to each other under the force of memory, the law of contiguity; arid under the force of judgment, the law of affinity or congenesis; and under the energy of the imagination, the law of congruity, a combined and softened application of the other two. The laws of association are convenient as forms of expression, as rendering relations on their objective side which are due to the hidden energies of mind. But when these laws are spoken of and applied as ultimate, they become another of those many disguises of words by which sequences are put for forces, and statements for reasons. The question involved is one again of the nature of mind. The seat of energy is transferred from mind to the products of mind.
