52 Major Pricx’s Extracts from the Mualijdt-i-Darad Shekohi. 
bered will be found exactly such as it was when originally lodged in the 
memory, just as the thing committed to writing appears as at first written, 
without alteration. The mind then, through the medium of the faculty of 
reminiscence, is able to read that intellectual record inscribed on the 
memory by the imagination, without having heard a word or a letter 
brought out or recited aloud. In the same manner as when we have in 
memory a chapter of the Koran, or a passage from the poets, we are able to 
read or bring it to recollection, or, in recollecting, be sensible that it is 
deposited in the memory, without bringing out the words, or giving them 
utterance aloud. 
It seems then manifest, that in the same manner as there exists such a 
faculty as external writing, the mind also possesses internally as well a 
species of writing, and the tablet on which it is inscribed ; just as, externally, 
there belong to it the subject spoken of and its expression, so are there both 
subject and expression internal. The subject and expression of the mind, 
and that which is externally disclosed, are equally matter reduced to form. 
Invisibly, therefore, these forms are separated, or rendered distinct, by the 
most refined of faculties, and these are the internal senses; the sensations 
and perceptions, or inclinations,* to whatever extent, finding therein 
sufficient and unlimited accommodation. Visibly, however, these material 
forms reside in the bodily feelings, and these are the external senses; in 
which we cannot discover two things in one place, but only separately, or 
one by one, the sensations derived through the external senses crowding so 
much one upon the other, that their accommodation is extremely confined ; 
just as we find that two letters cannot be written in the same place without 
the one effacing the other; whereas in mental writing, the numerous 
branches of knowledge, in all its variety, may be contained in one place, 
without either crowding or narrowness of room. 
This discussion is designed to awaken the mind of the prudent man to 
the consideration of a mode of speech and writing widely different from 
that which the rational animal, by a protruded sound, inscribes on the 
impassible air; or that which the same animal, through the medium of a 
right line, delineates upon the palpable earth. Until we come to speak of 
the speech and writing inspired by Onmipotence in revelation, a subject of 
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