Major Price’s Extracts from the Mualiyat-i-Déré Shekohi. 51 
things imagined to the memory,* which is one of the internal senses, and 
its seat is in the posterior part of the brain. The faculty of remembrance + 
searches for that form which has been so consigned to the memory ; for 
memory is prior, and then remembrance; because until a thing has been 
retained in the memory there can be no remembrance of it. 
The imagination, or imaginative faculty, consigns to the memory such 
forms or images as the individual, through the delineations of speech and 
writing, distinguishes from matter; and the memory retains such forms in 
possession: but every form or image which penetrates the memory subse- 
quently to, or perhaps independently of the imagination, must be conveyed 
to it in a written shape, and the memory recognizes its identity ; or being 
written parallel, it perceives some difference. 
Now when the faculties of the mind have found a place there where 
there exists no bottom, forms to infinitude may be lodged therein, although 
there be a separate place for separate forms (or ideas). 
The imagination then, when it distinguishes forms from matter, may be 
compared to a man who in the act of writing distinguishes the forms of 
spoken language from the matter, which is air converted to sound—that is 
to say, the air which transmits a sound in speech ; and who discriminates the 
written form from matter consisting of paper and ink, inscribing these forms 
without matter on the faculty of the memory. 
Now that which is thus accumulated in the human memory may not 
unaptly be considered as mental scripture, or record, which, with the pen 
of the imagination, the mind has inscribed on the tablet of the memory: 
for do we not observe, with regard to the memory, that when a man has 
learnt by heart some fact that has been committed to writing, all that 
has been written, in word, or letter, or syllable, must have been ina 
manner engraven thereon. This, then, is nothing but the separate form 
or idea which the imaginative faculty, after having perceived the writing, 
hath so discriminated and engraven on the memory,. 
The faculty of remembrance, reminiscence, or recollection, again, is that 
which reads such intellectual record, because the recollection can at will 
repeat such writing when lodged in the memory; and the fact thus remem- 
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