140. IX. THE HUMAN INTELLECT
Intellection, Thought, Reasoning, and Judgment
(1) There is no thought without imagination because none without ideas of the memory, these being parts of the imagination as well as of the thought; for without memory we cannot think. Thus, it is very difficult to perceive distinctly what imagination is and what thought. That in themselves they are nevertheless distinct, and can be distinguished is evident in the case of somnambulists, who see with their eyes open and with some imagination, though mostly perverse, inasmuch as there is no thought within it; also in the case of brute animals, which are not lacking in imagination, though denied thought; and furthermore, in the case of young children, almost infants, who, beginning to prattle, speak things imagined but not thought. Like the latter are many adults, some of them being gifted with better thought and fancy than others. But because imagination is present in thought, and thought in imagination, we think thought to be a kind of imagination, more perfect and cultivated. Yet if this were the case they could not be separated as in the cases mentioned above. It is therefore worthwhile to inquire more deeply into what the one is, and what the other.
