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we only have conceptual knowledge. Of our own past 

 states of mind we take cognizance in a peculiar way. Tliey 

 are ' objects of memory,' and appear to us endowed with 

 a sort of warmth and intimacy that makes the perception 

 of them seem more like a process of sensation than like a 

 thought. 



