Essays on Life 



but never, that I have seen, disputed. A brief 

 resume of the leading points in the argument 

 is all that space will here allow me to give. 



We have seen that it is a first requirement 

 of heredity that there shall be physical con- 

 tinuity between parents and offspring. This 

 holds good with memory. There must be 

 continued identity between the person re- 

 membering and the person to whom the 

 thing that is remembered happened. We can- 

 not remember things that happened to some 

 one else, and in our absence. We can only 

 remember having heard of them. We have 

 seen, however, that there is as much bond-fide 

 sameness of personality between parents and 

 offspring up to the time at which the off- 

 spring quits the parent's body, as there is 

 between the different states of the parent 

 himself at any two consecutive moments ; 

 the offspring therefore, being one and the 

 same person with its progenitors until it 

 quits them, can be held to remember what 

 happened to them within, of course, the 

 limitations to which all memory is subject, as 

 much as the progenitors can remember what 



happened earlier to themselves. Whether it 



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