188. 5151. That the life of one faculty flows in succession into that of a second, and therefore, the life of the soul into that of the mind devoted to understanding, anyone may see quite plainly if he only attends to the innumerable elements in that mind, namely, those by virtue of which people are able to think, to judge, to conclude, to choose, and this analytically, in accordance with so many very deep and, in fact, unsearchable laws - this even in earliest childhood. Of these laws, some have been investigated, and are set forth in physiological hypotheses, but very few, and only the most general ones, which were able to be arrived at only by attentive contemplation of one's own mind. These things could never exist unless they flowed in from a higher ability, that is, from the properly human soul, which is so much above the ideas of the mind devoted to understanding, that it composes those mental images and analytically arranges them in sequence, and thus composes the thoughts of the mind and their intelligible shapes. The same takes place in regard to feelings, which govern the will.