Let us suppose the time for continuing the exercise to have arrived.

The teacher resumes the discussion thus: "I was talking to you yesterday about the motives of action.

How many had I made ?" Some say "Four," some "Five," some "Six." "Can you name any of them ?" The boys attempt to recollect them, and they give the names in the order in which they accidentally occur to the various individuals.

Of course the words Fear, Emulation, Honor, Friendship, and others, come in confused and irregular sounds from every part of the school-room.
"You do not recollect the order," says the teacher, "and it is of no consequence, for the order I named was only accidental.

Now to go on with my account: suppose all these boys to sit down and go to writing, each one acting under the impulse of the motive which had been presented to him individually.