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Chapter
XX.—Concerning Memory.
The faculty of memory is the cause1840
| 1840 Text, αἴτιον. R.
2930, ἀγγεῖον. | and storehouse of remembrance and
recollection. For memory is a fantasy1841
that is left behind of some sensation
and thought1842
| 1842 καὶ
νοήσεως is wanting in
some mss., nor is it found in Nemesius, who
borrowed his description from Origen. | manifesting
itself in action; or the preservation1843
| 1843 Text,
σωτηρία.
Variant, σωρεία, a heaping up,
“coacervatio.” Faber has “confirmatio,”
which is nearer σωτηρία,
conservatio, which is found in Nemesius, &c. | of a sensation and thought1844
. For the soul comprehends objects
of sense through the organs of sense, that is to say, it perceives, and
thence arises a notion: and similarly it comprehends the objects
of thought through the mind, and thence arises a thought. It is
then the preservation of the types of these notions and thoughts that
is spoken of as memory.
Further, it is worthy of remark that the apprehension of
matters of thought depends on learning, or natural process of thought,
and not on sensation. For though objects of sense are retained in
the memory by themselves, only such objects of thought are remembered
as we have learned, and we have no memory of their essence.
Recollection is the name given to the recovery of
some memory lost by forgetfulness. For forgetfulness is just loss
of memory. The faculty of imagination1845
| 1845 τὸ
φανταστικόν, the faculty of fantasy. | then, having apprehended material
objects through the senses, transmits this to the faculty of thought or
reason (for they are both the same), and this after it has received and
passed judgment on it, passes it on to the faculty of memory. Now
the organ of memory is the posterior ventricle of the brain, which the
Greeks call the παρεγκεφαλίς,
and the vital spirit it contains.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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