ABSTRACT
Memory is the remembrance of actions, of acts done in the body. The brain nerves and the organs of sense are more receptive and retentive of impressions than the muscles and bones, and are therefore more allied to memory. The physiologist imagines that he finds additional evidence in support of this view in his science, as he understands it to teach that all our sensations are conveyed by means of afferent nerves to the brain, and are there received and treasured up in the memory. Physiologists are shut up to the view that the memory has its seat in the brain because it is a received doctrine of their science that nerves convey impressions only in one direction that afferent or in carrying nerves convey impressions only from different parts of the body to the brain, and efferent or out carrying nerves solely from the brain to the various parts of the body.
