خلاصه ماشینی:
' After the Sensitive Faculty, man acquires the power of retaining the impressions of sensible objects after their disappearance.
The Practical Reason helps a man to know whatever he can know deliberately and volun• tarily, the Theoretical helps him to encompass the knowledge which he cannot acquire; the Preparatory becomes the source of arts and sciences; and 'the Cogitative helps him to think over the problem of doing or not doing," The faculties enumerated above are specifically human.
If we are inclined towards the knowledge of a thing which can only be known through Reason, the action, by the help of which we obtain the object of our desire, follows from another power of the Rational Faculty.
Of the many services that the brain renders to the heart, one is that it endows the sensory nerves with something on account of which the powers of the heart (which prepares the "menials" for the sensations) stick to their proper and specific functions.
If. along with the Nutritive Faculty, the power which prepares the Matter makes its appearance, the organs that are formed after it are female organs.
The Intellect that man is endowed with is a particular power of Matter, which has been prepared to receive the impressions of intellectual things.
When the Reason has obtained from the Active Intellect the thing that is comparable to the light of the sun, the sensibles in the faculty of Imagination become intellectuals in Reason.