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living in America who had in his congregation a con- 
siderable number of Germans and Swedes related to 
Dr. Rush that nearly all a little before dying pray in 
their mother tongue. “I have,” said he, “innumerable 
examples of it and among them several in which I am 
sure they had not spoken German or Swedish for fifty 
or sixty years.” 245 
The following two facts are still more typical: 
A lady in the last stages of a chronic disease was 
taken from London to the country. Her little daugh- 
ter, who had not yet learned to talk, was sent to her 
and after a short visit was sent back to the city. The 
lady died several days later. The daughter grew up 
to maturity without remembering her mother. She had 
then occasion to see the room in which her mother died. 
Although ignorant of that fact, upon entering the room 
she started, and when asked the cause of her emotion, 
she said “I have a distinct impression of having been 
in this room before. There was in that corner a lady 
in bed, apparently very ill, who leaned over me and 
wept.” 246 
Similarly, a man of very marked artistic tempera- 
ment, as soon as he came in front of a castle in Sussex 
had an extremely vivid impression of having already 
seen it, and he recalled in his imagination the procession 
of visitors in all its details. He learned from his mother 
that he had actually been brought there on an excursion 
at the age of sixteen months and that the recollection 
which he had of the visit was very exact.?#7 
These examples show then how remarkable can be 
248Ribot: Les maladies de la mémoire. P. 146—147. 
246Ribot: Ibid. P. 143—144. 
“Ribot: Ibid. P. 144. 
