500 On Memory. 
little use, for the most important articles of our knowledge 
might have remained latent in our minds even when those 
occasions presented themselves to which they are imme- 
diately applicable. 
Dr. George Moore, in his treatise on the power of the 
soul over the body, a book well worthy of perusal, takes a 
spiritual view of the memory; he says the operation of the 
soul upon the body and the incorporeal origin and end of 
mind willbe further rendered manifest by meditating upon 
another endowment, namely, memory. This indeed is 
presupposed in the idea of abstraction, since we cannot 
contemplate or reflect unless the mind be previously fur- 
nished with objects or the remembered images of past 
impressions. 
We may dwell the rather on this faculty as it is essential 
to the exercise of thought and must precede reasoning. 
Hesiod said the nine Muses arethe daughters of Mnemosyne, 
and rightly did he thus determine, since without memory 
they never could have existed, for every production of 
human intellect has its origin in this faculty, hence the 
mind of the rational being is first exercised in examining 
objects and enjoying sensations, since the remembrance 
of these constitutes the ground work of reflection and 
orethought. 
The infant’s reason requires for’ development only 
familiarity with facts and the opportunity of comparing 
them with each other. Thus it happens that savage 
tribes and persons wholly without education exhibit so 
many of the characteristics of childhood, because their 
minds remain without sufficient acquaintance with facts 
fully to call forth their reason; “the order of learning 
is from the senses to the imagination, and from this to the 
intellect.” 
It is not our purpose to investigate this faculty of 
Memory in philosophical order, but to relate certain- facts 
in connection with its exercise which may assist us in 
deducing certain inferences concerning the independence 
and management of the thinking principle. Attention 
and association are generally deemed essential to the 
memory, but experience certainly proves that its extent 
or capacity do not entirely depend on what is com- 
monly understood by attention and association; at least 
we find in many instances that we cannot detect the 
association, nor does it often appear that facility of re- 
collection is in proportion to the effort to attend or to ~ 
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