What, therefore, the brother really wants to know, we presume, is simply the difference between man intellectually and morally, or between the intellectual and the moral character of man. By the term nature different things may be understood. Phasis is also translated nature, and means production, birth, etc. From this sense of the term is derived the more common meaning, viz. Strictly speaking man has no moral nature or constitution.
Man is a totality, composed of matter and spirit.
Now, to man in his totality as thus constituted are given certain powers, or capacities, or faculties. These are usually divided and classified under three grand divisions, viz. This division, we believe, is now almost universally accepted. It must, however, not be forgotten that the mind is not complex, but one and indivisible. The intellect includes every capacity or power for knowing, including the idea and cognizance of the right.