ABSTRACT

How these webs are woven, in what manner engram or engram-complex comes to insert itself into engram or engram-complex, is the subject-matter of great part of Semon’s two books. He makes one understand it, for instance, in his study of the acoluth (acolytic) phase of all stimulation and sensation (and similarly of all ecphory or evocation) in which the response to a first one is still going on when a second supervenes, the onset of the second overlapping the waning of the first, so that a portion of the one is synchronous and integrated with a portion of the other, much as in a fugue, the different voices meet one another at different points of their common phrase, uniting in new harmonies: “not a third sound, but a star.” … (I find it difficult not to remember rather the utterances of poets than of philosophers in the presence of some of these facts.)