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the mind, of thus recollecting it, we shouldperhaps never have recovered. And certainly,2t any time before this recovery- the argu -rnent, that then the mind was unconscious,because we retained no memory of it, would*»ot only have been bad, but false. Of howtnuch consciousness, and activity of the foul,60 we lose the memory every night, because°f the flenderness of the impressions, whichare easily disturbed, as the day thoughts rushir > i or because of the shortness of the dura-tion ? Volucrique fimillima. somno , is a veryExpressive comparison for any thing that isfleeting or shy i The visions offered to us infleep,are often independent and without con-nexion ; probably often designed to contra-dict each other, and our waking thoughts too jtvhich makes them to be remembered withtttore difficulty than our waking thoughts,^et frequently these last have the famedisadrVa ntageous qualification, and are difficultlystained. A scene must have a natural co-herence to be easily remembered. Memory1S chiefly assisted, perhaps in this state of u-^ l on, by sensible impressions made on the° r gan, and there preserved for some time atleast. These are fading and transitory, an.iVol. I. Z jn