![]() ![]() More and serves you better as an illustration and perhaps in your age has new meaning. ![]() Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means Once it joined its facts by color and form and sensuous relations. The Past has a new value every moment to the active mind, through the incessant purification and better method of its memory. To-morrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better. Any piece of knowledge I acquire to-day, a fact that falls under my eyes, a book I read, a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it. Opportunities of investment are useful only to those who have capital. Hereby a home is possible hereby only a new fact has value. It holds us to our family, to our friends. Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides in the flowing, and gives continuity and dignity to human life. Perception, though it were immense and could pierce through the universe, was not sufficient. The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed. It is essential to a locomotive that it can reverse its movement, and run backward and forward If you bar their path, or offer them somewhat disagreeable to their senses, they make one or two trials, and then once for all avoid it.Įvery machine must be perfect of its sort. The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we. ![]() We like longevity, we like signs of riches and extent of nature in an individual. As gravity holds matter from flying off into space, so memory gives stability to knowledge it is the cohesion which keeps things from falling into a lump, or flowing in waves. Without it all life and thought were an unrelated succession. MEMORY is a primary and fundamental faculty, without which none other can work the cement, the bitumen, the matrix in which the other faculties are embedded or it is the thread on which the beads of man are strung, making the personal identity which is necessary to moral action. ![]()
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