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23. Recollection, i.e., “knowing time when, and place where”, is one mark which distinguishes conscious from sub-conscious memory. This localization in time is the ability to find certain reference marks. If you say, “It seems to me that I have heard something about that somewhere”, or “Did I send that letter to so-and-so?” the memory fails to locate the event in time, and therefore does not know whether or not the event ever happened. Sometimes even this vague recollection is wanting, and will lead people to produce matters or ideas, thinking them to be original, which have been stored in the mind, but whose localization in time has been entirely lost. Macaulay tells us that Wycherley had this failing in his declining years, and that if anything was read to him at night he would wake up in the morning full of it, and write out the ideas under the impression that they were entirely original with him. From all this it is clear that the power of conscious recall is one that should be persistently developed; for, as the late Lord Roberts said in a letter to the Pelman Institute: “A good memory is of the greatest use in life.”

EXERCISES.

The following exercises are a continuation of those found in Book I. They assist in the acquirement of sound knowledge and develop eye and ear memory.