Recapitulation — The  three  operations  of  Thought — Simple  Appre.
hension,  Judgment,  Reasoning — Three  Parts  of  Logic — Terms,
Propositions,  Syllogisms — Simple  Apprehension — The  steps
leading  to  it— Previous  processes — Abstraction — Abstraction
and  Simple  Apprehension — The  Concept  an  Intellectual  image
— The  Immaterial  Phantasm  and  Concept — Phantasm  and
Concept  contrasted— Concept  not  pictured  in  the  imagina-
tion— Concept  ideal  and  spiritual — Concept  accompanied  by
Phantasm — Points  of  difference  between  the  two — Common
Phantasms  —  Their  individual  character  —  Their  origin  —
Common  Phantasm  counterfeit  of  Universal  idea.
WE  must  recapitulate  the  substance  of  our  last  two
chapters  before  we  proceed.  We  commenced  by
laying  down  the  Law  of  Contradiction  and  the
Law  of  Identity.  The  latter  we  described  as  the
basis  of  all  positive  reasoning  and  the  parent  of  all
a  priori  Propositions.  From  these  Primary  Laws
we  passed  on  to  another  fundamental  Law,  the
Law  of  Causation,  defining  carefully  what  sort  of  a
cause  is  alluded  to  in  it.  Last  of  all  we  laid  down
the  Fourth  of  this  compact  family  of  First  Prin-
ciples, the  law  of  Excluded  Middle  which,  lil:c  the
Law  of  Causation,  proceeds  immediately  from  the
Law  of  Identity.  We  then  examined  the  First


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Principle,  which  Mr.  Mill  and  the  Experimental
School  propose  to  substitute  for  the  Laws  above
stated,  and  we  detected  in  the  process  by  which  he
establishes  it,  the  unfortunate  fallacy  of  assuming
implicitly  the  very  proposition  which  it  professes  to
prove.
