Introduction

The future cannot be the object of memory. Neither can the present be its subject matter, for our senses are concerned with this. By sensation we do not have cognizance either of the future or of the past, but only of the present. No person would say that he remembers the present while it is present; one merely says that in the former case one sees, and in the latter one knows. Even however, one possesses knowledge or sensation, which is not in actuality, then one remembers that the angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. The quick and ready-witted are apt at recollection. This Liebervach's recording is in the public domain.