The Power of Recollection

The selection differs from memory not merely in the time element, but also because many animals share the endowment of memory. People are want to say that they remember, although they do not know just when a thing happened. The reason for this is that recollection is a sort of syllogistic process. In recollection one reasons that one has known or heard or had some such experience of the thing in question. This is naturally found only in those creatures which have the power of deliberation. And deliberation is a kind of syllogic procedure. That this condition affects the body, and that recollection is the search for an image in a corporeal organ, is proved by the fact that many persons