Modes cr Forms cf Memory* [BookX. 



better remembered, both for this reafon, and becaufe 

 (like all distinct ideas) it becomes affociated with time, 

 place, and other eircumftances, as well as with the ideas 

 of him whd quotes it *. 



The following are the modes of memory pointed 

 out by Mr. Locke, which may be of fome ufe as de- 

 finitions. f When an idea recurs without the prefence 

 of the object, it is called remembrance ; when fought 

 after by the mind, and brought again in view, it is re- 

 coBt&SKit ; when held there long under attentive confi- 

 deration, it is contemplation ; when ideas float in the 

 mind, without regard or reflexion, it is called re- 

 i^rie-y when the ideas are taken notice of, and, as it 

 were, regiftered in the memory, it is attention -, wnen the 

 mind fixes its view on any one idea, and confiders it 

 on all fides, Jludy j-.' 



That ideas are commonly recollected in a train has 

 been already noticed. It has, indeed, been difputed, 

 whether we have any further power in recollection, 

 than, tft, Exciting a certain degree of activity in the 

 mind, and awakening it to the different affociations J ; 



* ' We remember thatbeft, which we underfland moft perfectly. 

 What we underftand, ftrikes us with its whole force : of what we 

 underftand imperfectly, it is only the part underftood that makes 

 any impreffion on us ; of the reft we have no perception ; even that 

 part makes but a faint impreffion. It would acquire additional 

 force from its connexion with the other parts, if the whole were 

 underflood.' Ger. on Gen. pare ii. f. 9. 



f Locke, B. ii. c. 19. 



J The mention of a perfon often makes us recoiled, that there 

 is fome purpofe for which we want to fee him ; but fometimes, 

 when we cannot call to mind what it particularly is, the fight of 

 that perfon brings it quickly into our thoughts. In confequehce 

 of the fuperior force of fenfations, which enables them to iuggeft 

 conceptions by means of much weaker relations than idtas can, 

 it often happens, that an object occurring to the fenfes gives a very 

 quick and feemingly unaccountable turn to the courfe of the 

 thoughts.' -Gerrard en Gen. part ii; f. 3. 



and, 



