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For instance, sight is one of the outer powers; it sees and perceives this flower, and conveys this perception to the inner power-- the common faculty-- which transmits this perception to the power of imagination, which in its turn conceives and forms this image and transmits it to the power of thought; the power of thought reflects and, having grasped the reality, conveys it to the power of comprehension; the comprehension, when it has comprehended it, delivers the image of the object perceived to the memory, and the memory keeps it in its repository
(210:3)
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