Call it what we will, no term opens to us the invisible mode of its operations, no metaphysical definition expresses its variable nature.

Conscious of the existence of such a faculty, our critic perceived that the conception of it is by no means clear when described in words.
Has not the difference between an actual thing, and its image in a glass, perplexed some philosophers?
and it is well known how far the ideal philosophy has been carried by so fine a genius as Bishop BERKELEY.

"All are pictures, alike painted on the retina, or optical sensorium!" exclaimed the enthusiast BARRY, who only saw pictures in nature, and nature in pictures.

This faculty has had a strange influence over the passionate lovers of statues.

We find unquestionable evidence of the vividness of the representative faculty, or the ideal presence, vying with that of reality.