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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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GHAF. Z
Os Retention.
8. 1.
HF BeXF FaculeY OF the Mind, Whereby it males a Parttier
Proorels tovards Rnomledge, is that LCall Retention; Or the
teevins of thole simple Ideas, irtich trom Senlarion or Reflection it
trach receired, irhich is done tvo wazs; First, cichier by cepins the
Idea, wtieh is brouxluc into ic, For some time actually in vier, irhich is
called Contemplation.
8. 2. The ocher, is che Pormer to rerive again in our Minds thole Ideas;
ertich after imprintins have disappeared, or have been a5 it vere laid a.
side out oE Siglit: And thus we do, etien re conceire FICat or Light.
Vellon or Sireet, the Object beins remored; and this is Memori, Wrhich
is as it vere the Storehoule ot our Ldeas. For the narrom Mind oF ian,
noc beins capable oF harins many sdeas under View and Consideration
at once, it was necestary to have a Repolitory, 10 lay up thole Ideas,
erhich at anocher time ie mixhe have use of. And chusit is, by the A(-
Altance ot theMemorr, that re are said to have al thole Ideas in oyr
Understandins, wrhich thouchre do not actuallr contemplate, yet e
can brins in Cight, and matce appear again, and be che Objects ot our
Chouxhes, ithour the help ofthole sensible Dualicies, Which Firstimprin-
ted ehem there.
6. 3. Attention and Repetition help much co the sixins any Ideas in
our Memory: But chose, irtrich naturally at Arst mahre the decpest, and
mostlastins imprestion, arethole, Wrhichare accompanied with Pleasure
Or Pain. The great Bulinels oFthe Senses, beins to malie us takre notice
OF What hurES, Or adrantases the Body, it is visely ordered by Nature
a5 has been Mern) chat Pain Mould accompany the Reception oF leve-
ral Ideas; irhich supplrinq the Place of Consideration and Realonino in
Children; and actins quieker than Consideration in grown Nen, makes
both che L’ouns and Old aroid paintul Objects, with that hasto, wrhich is
necellarr for their Preserration; and in both lectles in theMemory a cou.
tiOM POF FhC FuEure.
5. 4. But concernins che severat degrees of lactins, Whereith Ideas
are imprinted on the Memory, wemay oblerve, First, That some of them
beinu produced in the Onderstanding, cither by the Objects aftectins the
Senles once Barelr, and no more, especialy il the Mind then otherwise
implored cool bur licele notice of ic, and set noc on the Ctamp deep into
it selF; or else, When chrouch the Temper of che Body, or ocherwile, the
Memory is very reale, tueh Ideas quickly tadte, ad vanimtr quito out of
che Onderstanding, and leare it as clear Without anY FOOF AepS, Or re-
mainins Characters, as Chadors doRyins over Fields oE Corn; and the
Mind is as roid ofthem, as il cher never had BCCM FHerC.
8. 5. Fhus mans of chose Ideas, Which ivere produced in the Minds
ot Children, in che begimnine oE their Senlation (Lome OF Which, per-
haps, as oF lome Pleasures and Pains vere betore thes were born, and o.
chers in their InFanCY) il in the future Course ot their Lires, therare HOF
repeated again, are quire lost, ithout the least slimple remainins oP them.
This may be obserred in chole, whoby some Mischunce hare lost their
si8tE,