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things retain some impress which we have placed 

 upon them, and which we are able to recognise at a 

 future time; for, unless this were the case, the know- 

 ledge of identity is completely obliterated, and every 

 fresh impression of the same thing must strike upon 

 the mind as new and distinct. 



In this way (as it seems to n\e) we may fix some of 

 the seats of memory away from the body ; for, what- 

 ever images there may be within, we are obliged to 

 admit an unsevered connexion between them and the 

 extraneous phenomena to which they refer for their 

 origin. 



Personality, also, as well as memory, appears a 

 growing energy, which continually unfolds and in- 

 cludes a wider circle, without in any way losing its 

 own proper difference and distinction. Thus, in 

 marriage, man experiences a communion and exten- 

 sion of being, by which he becomes one with his 

 wife, in the strictest sense of the word. In time his 

 children possess a share in his being ; then his 

 country gains his regard, and patriotic feelings are 

 mixed with the paternal and conjugal ; and lastly, he 

 passes beyond the bounds of country, and humanity 

 is included in his own proper individuality. This con- 

 nexion of household love, of patriotism, of humanity, 

 is no imaginary delusion, but there are a thousand 

 things, which, acting and reacting, convince him of 

 the contrary. 



