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Dected must ' claim to represent or stand for ' past originals, 

 which is incompatible with their being mere images revived. 

 The result is various confused and scattered mysteries and 

 unsatisfied intellectual desires. But why not * j^ool ' our 

 mysteries into one great mystery, the mystery that brain- 

 processes occasion knowledge at all ? It is surely no dif- 

 ferent mystery to /eeZ myself by means of one brain-pro- 

 cess writing at this table now, and by means of a different 

 brain-process a year hence to remember myself writing. All 

 that psychology can do is to seek to determine ivhat the 

 several brain-processes are ; and this, in a wretchedly im- 

 perfect way, is what such writings as the present chapter 

 have begun to do. But of ' images reproduced,' and ' claim- 

 ing to represent,' and ' put together by a unifying actus,' 

 I have been silent, because such exjoressions either signify 

 nothing, or they are only roundabout ways of simply say- 

 ing that the past is hioivn when certain brain-conditions 

 are fulfilled, and it seems to me that the straightest and 

 shortest way of saying that is the best. 



For a history of opinion about Memory, and other biblio- 

 graphic references, I must refer to the admirable little 

 monograph on the subject by Mr. W. H. Burnham in the 

 American Journal of Psychology, vols, i and n. Useful 

 books are : D. Kay's Memory, What It Is, and How to 

 Improve It (1888) ; and F. Fauth's Das Gedachtniss, Studie 

 zu einer Padagogik, etc., 1888. 



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