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from which were identified with those spoken by the girl in her fever. Erasmus mentions an Italian who spoke German, though he had forgotten that language for twenty years; there is also a case recorded of a butcher's boy who, when in sane, recited passages from the Phedre which he had heard only once. All these facts are so well-known that they need only here be cited; they, with many others, prove that in the very depths of the soul there exists many a memory which seemed to have vanished for ever.
An idea that has passed away from consciousness is not destroyed, but only transformed. Instead of being a present idea, it becomes a residum, representing & certain tendency of the mind exactly proportioned to the energy of the original idea. The existence of ideas in an unconscious state might, therefore, be regarded as a state of perfect equilibrium. In other words, whenever any piece of information or knowledge comes to use like a flash, it is because that informaction or that knowledge was acquired by us sometimes in the past, it having done into a latent state in the mean-time.
If such wonderful revival of a former consciousness or memory can be accomplished in an unconscious or unintentional way, there must be a science
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