86 Unconscious Memory 



so immortalised in speech or letters, are yet nothing for 

 heads that are out of harmonj' with them ; they must 

 be not only heard, but reproduced ; and both speech and 

 writing would be in vain were there not an inheritance 

 of inward and outward brain development, growing in 

 correspondence with the inheritance of ideas that are 

 handed down from age to age, and did not an enhanced 

 capacity for their reproduction on the part of each succeed- 

 ing generation accompany the thoughts that have been 

 preserved in writing. ]\Ian's conscious memory comes to 

 an end at death, but the unconscious memory of Nature 

 is true and ineradicable: whoever succeeds in stamping 

 upon her the impress of his work, she will remember him 

 to the end of time. 



