MEMORY. 17 



How can they be recalled into what seemed 

 a lost existence ? What depths and mysteries 

 of being! How little can we understand our- 

 selves ! Does it not seem then as if the mind 

 were too narrow to comprehend itself? And 

 so, through pages of most subtle and eloquent 

 analysis, he revels in that faculty of Wonder, 

 which is the very root and principle of all 

 curious inquiry. I do not say that these 

 questions are wholly vain. But they are use- 

 ful only as all knowledge may be useful, in 

 teaching us — if it be nothing else — how small 

 that knowledge is. St. Augustine was right 

 in thinking that this wonderful power of 

 Memory lies close to the final secrets on 

 which our very being and personality depend. 

 An eminent philosopher of our own time has 

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