5. Sway of the Conjecturing Power, throughout all the brain, and
alongside of the imaginative compartment.
Number 1. has been dealt with in Section Six; number 5 belongs
exclusively to Man, and will be further dealt with in the next Section;
the remaining three, to wit numbers 2, 3, and 4, are in all live
animals, and are dealt with in this Seventh Section. The theory is
beautifully clear and simple: thus, number 2 grasps and appropriates
the outward form brought to it by the senses; number 3 grasps and
appropriates particular conceptions; and number 4 stores them up;
thus also, the one dwelling in the front hollow is not influenced by
the action of the one occupying the middle or the hindermost hollow,
whereas conversely each succeeding faculty has recourse to the one
preceding it in order of place. This theory arose after an acquaintance
with the division and arrangement of the brain into chambers had made
considerable progress with the Arabs.
Those who read German should not fail to study Dr. Samuel Landauer’s
erudite notes in vol. 29 for the year 1875 of the Z.d.D.M.G.