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THat innate matter which I call the sensitive spirits for di∣stinction sake, makes holes or doors in animal figures, to receive outward objects; as the ears, eyes, nostrils, mouth,
pores of the skin, and the like, and these outward objects are presented, to that part of innate matter which I call rational spirits, but that part of innate matter I call sensitive spirits; as for example, thus, there is a house, or a tree, or any the like gross material figure; which is subject to the sense of ani∣mal figures, these standing at the doors of the eyes, which as soon as the sensitive spirits perceive, or other sensitive spirits that come in through these doors, strait print or draw the same figure upon the optick nerve, which optick nerve is made of dull matter, by the sensitive spirits from whence the rational spirits viewing from thence that picture, strait run themselves by number and measure into the likeness of that picture, which are those we call knowledg or understanding, and as long as those figures last among the rational spirits, though the objects are absent that we call memory, for when these prints are rub∣bed off by the sensitive spirits, and others placed thereon, or vaded by distance of place, or obscured by shutting the lids, yet the figure thereof may remain amongst the rational spirits, which is, as I said before, memory, and the repetitions of figures; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is, when one and the same figure was dissolved and created again amongst the rational, it is remembrance; but memory is not so strong as the present sense, nor the re∣membrance so perfect, as the memory and the reason is, that what the sensitive spirits wrought on the optick nerve, is like a printed or painted figure, and that which the rational spirits make is like a carved statue, like painting, or sculpture, so that in memory the sculpture remains, and in remembrance is created, although the printing, or painting is worn out, or rubbed out, so that the present senses have two figures, one up∣on the optick nerve, the other amongst the rational spirits, wherein memory remains but one, and the reason why re∣membrance is not so perfect as memory is, because it is but the copy of a copy from the original, for remembrance is but a pattern taken from the memory, and the memory but a pat∣tern from the object.