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before; because it is entirely a new itnp re ^fion, not an impression renewed. Henceis that many casualties which affect the f eslfory, weaken the impressions madeand consequently affect the memory equal y(See N° 12. of Sect. V. Vol. I. concernsthe soft and yielding substance of the sensesDrunkenness, old age, a stroke or wound 0the head, and many diseases do this: and, 3has been observed above, this is the conn 3and first effect of steep. Memory, as we 3 ^active in it, is the power itself belongingthe soul, whereby it applies the perceptscapacity to read, as it were, these fob 15 £itnpressions; or it is in general that poW^the foul, whereby it directs the perceptsto the consideration of any former ob) eAnd this power no way depends on the U 1ter of the body. It hath been shewn to h e ^contradiction to fay, The foul cannot e * e ^its active power without the help or in^^mentality of dead matter. The foul muft a .upon matter first, to make it instrument 3 ^and matter could not be the instrumentthis previous aft ion. See Sect. IV. ^ 0

Vol. I. Note (Æ). Thus much ofkinds of memory here: and we shorn