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We say we remember, or we recollect, the name of such a person, the date of such a fact, the symtom of such a malady, the medicinal property of such a plant, the English meaning of such a foreign word, the movement of such an army, the geographical or topographical position of such an object, &c. &c.—when that name, that date, that diagnostic symptom, that medicinal property, that English meaning, that movement, &c. &c., do, when wanted, spring up before the mind exactly similar to those that did stand before the same mind on some former occasion.
By the expression, when wanted, I mean when the respective person, fact, malady, plant, &c., is given.
NOTICING.
When a number of notions strike simultaneously our senses, we are not always aware of all of them; we notice some of these notions in preference to others;—e.g. When several individuals gaze from London Bridge upon a certain spot of the Thames, all the thousands of notions which cover that spot will paint themselves upon each of the living re-tinas, and exert an influence through the optic nerves upon all the brains standing upon the bridge; but not all these notious will be equally noticed by each individual brain: one will notice nothing but smoke and paddle-wheels; he will declare that
