 | William James - 2007 - 709 pages
...memorable page of his dear old book : " The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, * I copy from the abstract of Wolfe's paper in ' Science ' for Nov. 19, 1886. The original is ia Psychologische... | |
 | John Locke - 1800 - 540 pages
...their minds than in those of people bom blind. The memory of some, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle : but yet there seems to be a constant...retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercises of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned... | |
 | John Locke - 1886 - 320 pages
...great fault with him for his use of analogies. In the following the figure is at least effective : "There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even those which are struck deepest and in minds the most retentive, so that if they be not sometimes renewed... | |
 | John Locke - 1988 - 328 pages
...great fault with him for his use of analogies. In the following the figure is at least effective : ' ' There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even those which are struck deepest and in minds the most retentive, so that if they be not sometimes renewed... | |
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The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest... 
