Chapter IX: MEMORY--OBLIVION--RECOLLECTION--Images, how

preserved and how lost--Good Memory not necessarily
advantageous--Recovery of the apparently Forgotten--Sudden
extinction of Ideas--'Decay of the mind' in
old age--Memory inexplicable on any theory but the
Substantial--John Stuart Mill's confession--Memory the
chief fact of Mental Science 28

X Sentiments may be remembered--Feelings and
Emotions--No detailed analysis of Sentiments possible
or necessary--Spinoza's list--Can sentiments be
noumenally excited without objects? 34

XI Analysis of Comparison--It is the principle
of Generalisation and Imagination 36

GENERALISATION

XII Purpose of Generalisation--Objects
classified must be similar and have similar
utilities--Inferiority of general
ideas acquired by definition--Names not essential to
general thought--Generalisation resembles composite
photography--Classification on mere objective
resemblance--neat but superficial--Conceptualism 38