[BookX. 



CHAP. V. 



MEMORY*. 



IJeas of Memory. Dijlingiiijbed from Ideas of Ima.ginat2on.~-~ fudg- 

 meni concerning Dijlance of Fafls. 'Memory inytung end old Per - 

 fans. -ReccUettion. Certainty, 



IT appears, that ideas of memory are diftin- 

 guifhed from ideas of imagination j ift, By being 

 more vivid ; 2dly, By the aflbciated ideas of time, 

 place, and other circumftances that accompany them. 

 As ideas, by being often repeated, become more 

 vivid, it is a common jemarkj that perfons inclined 

 to habits of falfhood, by often repeating the fame ftory, 

 are themfclves at laft impofcd on by the vivacity of the 

 idea, fo as to miftake it for an idea of memory. Mad- 

 men are almoft always deceived in this way. In 

 dreams, the vividnefs of the new fcene, and no aflb- 

 ciated ideas appearing by which to mark thcfe ideas 

 derived from memory, caufe us to miftake them for a 

 feries of real imprefiions. 



It feems probable, that we judge of the diftance of 

 fafts recorded by the memory, ift, From the idea 

 growing fainter, yet retaining the principal aflbciated 

 circnmftances j idly, From enumerating ideas of fac~bs, 

 which we know, by the order of ideas, to have fuccef- 

 fively happened fmce that point of time in which the 

 idea firft occurred. ' .The death of a friend, or any 

 interefting event, often related, appears to have hap- 



Memory is that faculty by which traces of fenfations ani 

 ideas recur, or are recalled, ia the fame order and proportion, ac- 

 curately or nearly ..as they were once actually prefented.' Hartley 

 Man, lutroduc. 



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