An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith 33

1 BOOK II — CHAPTER 19: Concerning Thought.

2 The faculty of thought deals with judgments and assents, and impulse to action and disinclinations, and escapes from action: and more especially with thoughts connected with what is thinkable, and the virtues and the different branches of learning, and the theories of the arts and matters of counsel and choice. Further, it is this faculty which prophesies the future to us in dreams. The organ of thought then is the mid-ventricle of the brain, and the vital spirit it contains.