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In presenting my memorandum, I think I cannot do 

 better service to anyone present than urge him to read 

 very carefully ''Memory; what it is, and how to improve 

 it," by David Kay. 



The book is edited by Dr. Harris, U. S. Commissioner 

 of Education. Mr. Kay most emphatically believes that 

 not simply mind, nor simply brain, remembers ; but that 

 every cell of the physical body either aids or retards 

 memory of that sensation with which it was associated 

 when the sensation was first perceived by the mind. 

 And he quotes in his arguments the names of prominent 

 writers. 



On page 20 he quotes Prof. Bain as saying: "The 

 organ of the mind is not the brain by itself ; it is the 

 brain, nerves, muscles, organs of sense, viscera." 



Mr. Kay recognizes the fact that "the general opinion 

 of physiologists is that the movements on which our 

 recalled sensations depend are confined to the brain, 

 which are therefore regarded as the sole seat of the 

 memory." 



He believes " this is probably the case in many in- 

 stances, as where the previous sensation is only imper- 

 fectly recalled ; but where it is brought back with any 

 degree of vividness, as in the highest form of memory, 

 we are of the opinion that the motion is not confined to 

 the brain, but extends also to the connecting nerves and 

 even to the special organ of sense, as in the original 

 sensation, with this diflierence, that in sensation motion 

 originates in external organ and travels inward to the cen- 

 ter, whereas in recollection it originates in the center and 

 passes outward to the outer organ. It is well known 

 that if we gaze for a time on a particular bright color, 

 the retina becomes exhausted for the reception of that 

 color, and the object assumes the appearance of the 

 complementary one. Now if, instead of gazing, we shut 

 our eyes and vividly imagine the color, the same effect 



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