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17. Among the mental powers of man, the central place is occupied by the Memory. It is memory which makes life a connected whole and gives it a rational meaning. If a man were entirely without memory he would be utterly helpless, paralytic and imbecile. The action of the feet in walking involves memory. The motion of the hand towards the mouth when eating is an exhibition of memory. In the higher aspects of life the role played by memory becomes more conspicuous. No judgment can be formed unless there are present in the memory the facts from which the judgment is to be derived. Deduction demands a recollection of the “premises”, and calculation depends on recalling numbers. Social life would be impossible without a more or less developed memory for names and faces; business life would, in the absence of this mental quality, be certain to come to a standstill; indeed, without memory intelligent life is outside the realms of possibility. The better the memory the better the chances of a larger and fuller life in every sense of the term.