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25. “Recollection” is the name given to the conscious revival of an impression made upon the brain and retained by it. Frequently recollection is spoken of as if it were synonymous with “memory,” but in reality recollection is only the third and final stage of the complete process. Facility in recollection depends primarily upon the intensity of the first impression. Secondly, it depends upon certain principles of association which will be explained in a later lesson.

Recollection may be brought about in various ways. Sometimes it is stimulated by a recurrence of the conditions which originated the first impression. Thus, if you “forget” an idea you will often find yourself able to “remember” it if you return to the exact spot where the idea first occurred to you. Sometimes a single circumstance will recall a whole group of ideas, as when the name of a novelist brings instantly to your recollection the incidents in various books which you have read of which he is the author. Sometimes an idea is recalled when its exact opposite is presented to the mind. From the scientific point of view, it is thought probable that particular ideas become connected with particular cells in the brain, and any excitement of a particular area in the brain is therefore likely to bring all the ideas located in that area within the range of ready recollection. We shall consider the subject again in further lessons, when we shall see the practical application and effect of the will in the act of recollection.