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112 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
the feelings are blind—that the propensities
must be
guided by the intellect. And all perceptions of qual
ities and fitness are referred to these intellectual facul
ties.
My
consciousness assures me that here has been a
great error, a double error, in making the so-called in
tellectual faculties all passionless, and the so-called sen
timents and propensities devoid of all intelligence. I
believe in the intuitions of the heart, as they are called,
which seem to me only to be the rapid and powerful
action of the intelligence that resides in every passion
of the soul. Each seems faculty to me to bo a combina
tion of desire and intelligence, with powers of foresight
and memory.
I know that the reflective powers, comparison and
causality, by
which we discover the harmonies of rela
tion and sequence, and the general "fitness of things,"'
are the calm judges that must give final decision ; but
what is called the instinctive knowledge of right seems
of conscientiousness. So
to me to be the intelligence
constructiveness, or what is called the propensity to
build or construct, seem3 to cany with it in insects,
birds, and higher animals, as well as in man, certain
powers of intelligence and action.
In a word, I can conceive of no passion which is not
accompanied by a kind of intelligence suited to its nature
and objects, and us giving the knowledge called instinct
ive or intuitive, and which, though liable to many per
versions, is, in a true life, perhaps
even more reliable
than the action of the so-called intellectual powers.
It is to be noted that the phrenologists have given to
the function of amativeness a brain by itself, the cere-