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the antecedents, we call them memory. Inter- 

 rupt rhythms and destroy all bilateral relations 

 and memory ceases. I say again, memory is 

 not a storehouse ; nor is it concentrated in 

 the brain or elsewhere, for it is the fibre and 

 warp of the body. The only record of the 

 past is in some growth which changes the 

 direction of nervous currents and of activity. 

 Memory is, therefore, a phenomenon of related 

 parts. Isolate these parts, break up the cor- 

 relation of structure that makes rhythm, and 

 the resultant activity is visualization, or the 

 struggle of a part for its natural complement. 

 A physical deprivation becomes a mental 

 picture inciting to activity. In isolation the 

 complementary unknown looms as more than 

 real. The mental picture is not a fact, but 

 a fancy, and in the channel it forms there 

 is a pleasant flow of energy so long as the 

 surplus vitality holds out. This, in its 

 simplest form, is the sex impulse, and the 

 irritation of sex isolation is the prime motive 

 in the struggles for the realization of fancy. 

 Separation raises the level of consciousness 

 and intensifies its pictures. Strongest emo- 



