The faculty of reason compares all thought with one’s past experience (as recalled from the memory) and forms all judgements and opinions. The faculty of the imagination shapes one’s thoughts into ideas, plans, and ways and means of attaining desired ends. The conscience gives moral guidance to all thoughts. If consulted at all times, before one engages in expressing any thought in terms of action, these three faculties of the mind will become strong and dependable. If they are not consulted, and one forms the habit of acting on thought without their modifying influence, they will atrophy and
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