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A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…
A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the several dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.
London: printed by R. Hearne and John Norton for Robert Bostock, 1640
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CHAP. III. Of the Memory, and some few causes of the weakness thereof.
CHAP. III. Of the Memorie, and some few causes of the weakenesse thereof.
Now for these inward Senses, which are commonly accounted three, (though extending themselves unto sundry operations of differing qualities) • take the two later, to wit, Memory, and Fancy, or Imagination, to have a more excellent degree of perfection in man; as being indeed the principal Store-houses and Treasuries of the o• • once of the Soul. Where▪ by Memory, I under stand not the faculty, as it is common to beasts with men, and importeth nothing but the simple retention, and conservation of some species, formerly treasured up by the conveyance of the outward sense: but as it is Consors & co-operatrix Rationis, •s Hugo speaks, a joint-worker in the1 operations of Reason; which the Latins call Reminiscentia, or Recordatio; including some acts of the Understanding▪ Which is a reviewing, or (as we speak) a calling to mind of former objects, by discourse, or rational searching for them; which is made by Aristotle to be the remote ground of all Arts: For (saith he) Memory is the Ground of Experience, and Experience2 the Mother of Art: The dignity hereof in man, is seen, both by perfecting the Understanding▪ ⟨p. 14⟩in matter of Learning and Discourse, (wherein some men have attained unto almost a miraculous felicity; as Seneca the elder confess3