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does so remember can only be settled by 

 observing whether it acts as living beings 

 commonly do when they are acting under 

 guidance of memory. I will endeavour to 

 show that, though heredity and habit based 

 on memory go about in different dresses, 

 yet if we catch them separately for they 

 are never seen together and strip them 

 there is not a mole nor strawberry-mark, nor 

 trick nor leer of the one, but we find it in 

 the other also. 



What are the moles and strawberry-marks 

 of habitual action, or actions remembered and 

 thus repeated ? First, the more often we 

 repeat them the more easily and unconsciously 

 we do them. Look at reading, writing, walk- 

 ing, talking, playing the piano, &c. ; the longer 

 we have practised any one of these acquired 

 habits, the more easily, automatically and 

 unconsciously, we perform it. Look, on the 

 other hand, broadly, at the three points 

 to which I called attention in "Life and 

 Habit ":- 



I. That we are most conscious of and 

 have most control over such habits as speech, 



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