The Anatomy of Tobacco
burning July day, I once more smoke it. And I have scarce put it to my lips when in imagination I am again among the snow-clad hills and feel again the cold keen air of winter. Next cometh to my mind the meeting with my acquaintance, the matter of our discourse, the wetness of the ditch, and the hotness of the muffins. Now it was only during a part of the whole time that I was actually smoking, so that neither by æthereal atoms or ideas could the pipe participate in what preceded and what followed my smoking of it. And the cause of recollection is as follows:—Every single pipe hath in it a somewhat that renders it different from other pipes. And this somewhat is perceived by the mind secretly—that is to say, it is not known by itself, but by what results from it. So taking this along with more material differences of substance, shape, colour, and the like, it is easy to understand that all these acting together ⟨recall⟩ to the mind when it was they were last perceived. Which being accomplished, the mind, not content with the bare par-
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