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So far we have merely asserted that the concept is distinct from the image, that thought is not sensation, and that the intellect is a faculty higher than the brain.
The properties and actions by which a substance manifests itself to us, are the only means we have of ascertaining its ultimate inner nature, As a being is, so must it act we judge of the plant by the flower, and so too, we determine the nature of the intellect by its operations.
We know from our experience that there is in us a faculty by Virtue of which we are able to form ab stra'ct and universal concepts ideas which completely trans cend the scope of sense.
Glory, virtue, honor are all real entities, and we can form corresponding intellectual concepts of them, but they are not concrete things and cannot be rep resented in the imagination.
We can picture the soldier on the firingline, the orator's triumph and the football hero all typify glory, but there is no picture of glory as such, abstracted from the concrete instance.
Are we to deny the existence of this concept, because we are unable to represent it in the imagina tion The fact remains that the term glory means some thing to us, even when disjoined from any specific incident.
Thus there is a faculty in us capable of apprehending abstract realities and any category of mental activities which does not include this faculty is incomplete,

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