" The taste says, "Unless they have a savour, ask me not." The
touch says, "If it have not size, I handled it not; if I handled it
not, I gave no notice of it." Whence and how entered these things into
my memory? I know not how. For when I learned them, I gave not
credit to another man's mind, but recognised them in mine; and
approving them for true, I commended them to it, laying them up as
it were, whence I might bring them forth when I willed. In my heart
then they were, even before I learned them, but in my memory they were
not. Where then? or wherefore, when they were spoken, did I
acknowledge them, and said, "So is it, it is true," unless that they
were already in the memory, but so thrown back and buried as it were
in deeper recesses, that had not the suggestion of another drawn
them forth I had perchance been unable to conceive of them?
Wherefore we find, that to learn these things whereof we imbibe
nor the images by our senses, but perceive within by themselves,
without images, as they are, is nothing else, but by conception, to
receive, and by marking to take heed that those things which the
memory did before contain at random and unarranged, be laid up at hand
as it were in that same memory where before they lay unknown,
scattered and neglected, and so readily occur to the mind familiarised
to them.
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