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single undivided faculty throughout the whole of our 

 life, whether mental or bodily, conscious or uncon- 

 scious ; and I claim the description of a certain class 

 of maladies according to the phraseology of memory 

 and habit as a real description and not a figurative." 

 (p. 2.) 



As a natural consequence of the foregoing he 

 regards " alterative action " as " habit-breaking action." 



As regards the organism's being guided throughout 

 its development to maturity by an unconscious memory, 

 Dr. Creighton says that " Professor Bain calls repro- 

 duction the acme of organic complication." " I should 

 prefer to say," he adds, " the acme of organic impli- 

 cation ; for the reason that the sperm and germ 

 elements are perfectly simple, having nothing in their 

 form or structure to show for the marvellous poten- 

 tialities within them. 



"I now come to the application of these consi- 

 derations to the doctrine of unconscious memory. If 

 generation is the acme of organic implicitness, what 

 is its correlative in nature, what is the acme of 

 organic explicitness ? Obviously the fine flower of 

 consciousness. Generation is implicit memory, con- 

 sciousness is explicit memory ; generation is potential 

 memory, consciousness is actual memory." 



I am not sure that I understand the preceding 

 paragraph as clearly as I should wish, but having 

 quoted enough to perhaps induce the reader to turn 

 to Dr. Creigh ton's book, I will proceed to the subject 

 indicated in my title. 



