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having lost the attractions of novelty, are not strong 

 enough to attract our attention and our memory, busied 5T 

 with more engrossing objects. For 58 all attention re- 

 quires memory, and often fi9 when we are not, so to 

 speak, admonished 50 and warned to take notice of some 

 of our present perceptions, we let them pass without 

 reflexion and even without observing them ; but if some 

 one directs our attention to them immediately after- 

 wards 60 , and for instance bids us notice some sound that 

 has just been heard, we remember it, and we are con- 

 scious that we had some feeling of it at the time. Thus 

 there were perceptions of which we were not immediately 

 conscious [s'apercevoir], apperception arising in this 

 case only from our attention being directed to them 

 after 61 some interval, however small. And for an even 

 better understanding of {;he petites perceptions which we 

 cannot individually distinguish in the crowd, I am wont 

 to employ the illustration of the moaning or sound of the 

 sea, which we notice when we are on the shore. In 

 order to hear this sound as we do, we must hear the 

 parts of which the whole sound is made up, that is to 

 say the sounds 62 which come from each wave, although 

 each of these little sounds makes itself known only in the 

 confused combination of all the sounds taken together, 

 that is to say, in the moaning of the sea 63 , and no one 

 of the sounds would be observed if the wave which 

 makes it were alone. For we must be affected a little 

 by the motion of this wave, and we must have some 

 perception of each of these sounds, however little they 

 may be ; otherwise we should not have the perception 

 of a hundred thousand waves, for a hundred thousand 



57 E. reads i which are busied only.' 58 E. omits 'for.' 



59 E. omits * often ' and ' admonished and.* 



60 E. omits ' afterwards.' 



61 E. reads * in this case of our attention being directed to them 

 only after,' &c. 



6a E. reads ' sound.' 



43 E. omits ' that is to say, in the moaning of the sea.' 

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