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last. That would happen, in fact, which is really found 

 to happen, so that what seems to be exceptional at 

 first may after all prove to be exactly in order when the 

 law of mind is better known. 



In speculating upon the phenomena of memory, 

 therefore, I cannot prevent my thoughts from soaring to 

 a region where the limitations of time and space are un- 

 known, where, without loss of identity in either, body 

 and spirit are substantially one, where unity in diversity 

 and diversity in unity is the one thought which remains 

 uppermost in the mind. I can find nothing in the 

 mechanical conception of cerebration which may serve as 

 a firm foundation for memory. I must seek far and 

 wide beyond my actual corporeal presence before I find 

 what I want for this purpose. I must even discard the 

 notion that various bodies act and re-act upon each other 

 from a distance through the instrumentality of simple 

 force, and adopt in place of it the notion that these 

 bodies, instead of being separate, as they appear to be 

 to the senses, ccmmingle, and act and re-act upon each 

 other, not indirectly, but directly, by participating, as it 

 were, in an atmosphere, not of mere force but of actual 

 being. It would seem as if my mind keeps hold of any 

 object or subject upon which it has ever taken hold, 

 whatever it be, wherever it be, becoming one with it in 

 no merely imaginary sense. It would seem as if I might 

 find in my memory the proof that I myself, body and 

 mind together, am bound to the universe and the uni- 

 verse to me by numberless indissoluble ties that the 

 sphere of my trans-corporeal presence is co-extensive 

 with that of this universe that I can only be fully 

 myself when I recognise this relationship and that the 

 manifold mysteries of memory only begin to be disclosed 



