ABSTRACT
The memory is the most important and wonderful of all people faculties. All the other faculties of the mind depend on this one for their existence. Without memory we should know no more of the past than we do of the future. Retention is the side of the memory that is commonly overlooked, though it is much more important and more worthy of consideration than the other. The difference between association and attention is nothing less than a radical one. The simplest form of memory is that in which past sensations or movements are again brought to mind. In every form of voluntary motion the exciting cause originates in the brain, and passes through connecting nerves to the muscles, by which the movements are affected. Consciousness, however, is the crowning principle in memory. The latter, or logical memory, is far comprehensible than the former, and by means of it we carry on the higher mental operations of reason and discovery.
