CHAP. XIX.
Of Memory and Reminiscence.
a 1.1 FRom Phantasy proceeds Memory, which is of things past, as sense is of the present, opinion of the future. Sense and Intel∣lection are necessarily previous to memory. Hence those Animals only which have sense of time, remember, as horses and dogs; yet memory is not without phantasm, even not that memory which is of Intelligible things, for he that remembreth, is sensible that he first saw, heard, or learn'd what he remembreth. Memory therefore is reducible per se to phantasie, as being of Phantasmes, to intellect only by accident. Hence in the same part of the Soul, wherein Phantasie exists, resideth likewise memory; for if it were placed only in the intellectual faculty, it would not be competent to Beasts, which we see it is.
Memory is made by impression of some image by the sense upon the Soul. Hence they who retain not the image and figure of sense, either by continuall motion, or excessive humidity, as children, or drought, as old men, remember not. To memory therefore is required a moderate temperature of the brain; yet more inclined to dry.
b 1.2 Reminiscence is not a resumption or assumption of memory, but differs specifically from both these, for Beasts have not Remi∣niscence though they have memory, Reminiscence being made by discourse and diligent disquisition, collecting one thing from another by a continued series and order, untill at last we cal that to mind which we had forgotten.