Part 2 — DEFINITIONS OF THE FACULTIES OF INTELLIGENCE.
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PHYSICAL LOVE. Amativeness— Reproductive love; love of the opposite sex, and desire to unite in sexual relations and enjoy its company. Sexuality— Sexual friendship and fidelity. Philoprogenitiveness— Parental love; love of offspring and pets. Friendship— Adhesiveness; gregariousness; love of family; desire for companionship; attachment to friends. Inhabitiveness— Love of home, place of abode; love of country and offensive and defensive patriotism. Continuity— The faculty of connection. The ability to comprehend continuousness or interruption; to give undivided and continued attention to one subject, or to interrupt intelligently; application, connectedness.
ENERGY. Vitativeness— The love of life; desire to exist. Combativeness— Defense; courage; defiance; force of character, energy and indignation. Executiveness— Executive ability; extermination; thoroughness and severity. Alternativeness— Desire for food and drink; faculty of discriminating taste. Acquisitiveness— Desire for property; industry; economy in acquiring property; realization of value. Secretiveness— Reserve; concealment; policy; conservatism. Caution— Prudence; solicitude; timidity; fear; apprehension of danger.
DIGNITY. Approbativeness— Love of display; the desire to please; ambition to gain admiration and popularity. Self-esteem— Dignity; governing power; independence; self-love. Firmness— Stability; perseverance; decision; inflexibility of purpose. Justice— Righteousness; integrity; circumspection; scrupulousness in matters of duty.
SYMPATHY. Hope— Belief in future joy; tendency to high expectations. Faith— Trust and belief. Confidence. Veneration— Reverence and worship; deference for superiors, and submission to superior power. Benevolence— The desire to do good; sympathy; philanthropy. Imitation— The copying faculty. The ability to conform to existing customs, conditions and facts by imitating them. Sympathy— The power to discern motives, character and qualities in other persons by sympathetic action. Suavity— Agreeableness; tendency to speak and act in a pleasant manner.
OBJECTIVE INTELLECT. Individuality— Observation and desire to see things, to identify and separate objects. Form— Observation of the shape of things. Sensitiveness to correctness or the lack of it in shapes. Size— Power to measure distances, quantities and sizes. Weight— Perception of the effect of gravity, and sense of the perpendicular. Color— The discrimination of hues and colors. Order— Faculty of arrangement; method; system; neatness. Number— The power to count, enumerate, reckon, etc.; faculty of calculation. Motion— Ability to comprehend movement. Love of motion, sailing, navigation, riding, dancing, etc. Experience— The historic faculty; faculty of experience and occurrence. Locality— Discernment of position, perception of place. Time— Consciousness of duration; faculty of time, promptness. Tune— Appreciation of sound; ability to distinguish musical tones. Constructiveness— Dexterity and ingenuity; ability in construction; faculty of adjustment. Language— Power of expression and ability to talk; verbal expression; vocabulary.
SUBJECTIVE INTELLECT. Causality— The ability to comprehend principles, and to think abstractly; to understand the relation between cause and effect. Comparison— The analyzing, illustrating and comparing faculty. Ideality— Love of the beautiful; desire for perfection, refinement. Sublimity— Love of grandeur and the stupendous; appreciation of the terrific. Mirthfulness— Wit; humor; love of fun. ←Contents