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 offspring of heat in the sun. This is tacitly perceived in the familiar expression that the wish is the father of the thought, which is but the common way of saying that thoughts are the product or offspring of the affections. The faculties of determination, memory, reflection, and the like, treated in psychological writings, are faculties distinctly below the general functions of affection and thought, and subservient to them. These faculties, determination, reflection, memory, perception, intuition, and the like, as has been observed, are classifiable under either the thought-faculty, the understanding; or under the affection-faculty, the will. They enter into the human form, but as they are external and subservient to the more interior human essentials, affection and thought, they need not be considered here further than to say that they are the organized faculties essential to the effective operation of the indwelling affection or love. They are the body in which affection or love dwells as the soul; they are the faculties into which the current of life-love charged with many potencies divides and becomes one again in the unity of the human form. The organized, subordinated, and correlated functions and faculties and potencies are what is to be understood by the human form. The material body with its system of organs is the habitation