CHAPTER V. 



TRACES OF UNITY IN THE PHENOMENA OF 

 MEMORY. 



" EVERY man is born an Aristotelian or a Platonist ;" 

 so wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge, so wrote Frederick 

 von Schlegel, the one, it may be, repeating unwittingly 

 the remark of the other. And there is a deep meaning 

 in these words about which it may be well, for reasons 

 which will appear in the sequel, to try and learn some- 

 thing before proceeding to pry into the many dark 

 questions connected with memory or any other mental 

 faculty. 



The things of sense, according to Aristotle, are com- 

 posed of eZSo<? form, and v\r), matter. The elSos, is the 

 formative principle, or energy by which the thing is pro- 

 duced and constituted and actualized. It is connatural 

 with the First Cause, which is one in essence, inde- 

 structible, immaterial, at once immoveable and the spring 

 of all movement : but it is not in any way subject to 

 this First Cause. It is, indeed, wholly free and inde- 

 pendent, except, perhaps, in the case where it is asso- 

 ciated with matter, uX/- Mind > vov^ is pure 6*809, 

 peculiar to man, which abides with the body during 

 life and departs at death, whither is not distinctly 

 stated. Soul, ^rv^ij, differs from vovs, in being de- 

 pendent upon body, which is a compound of elSos and 



