Of course he may break out now and then(I am not now referring only to drunkenness), and (
for example) buy himself a new pair of shoes, and take pleasure in seeing his feet looking well and smartly shod.
But even as expounded by its author it does not explain, and in truth is incompatible with some incidents of, the occurrences related in these memoranda:
for example, the sound of Charles Ashmore's voice.
* How, for example, can we obtain such knowledge as the following: "If we look at, say, a red nose and perceive it, and after a little while ekphore, its memory-image, we note immediately how unlike, in its likeness, this memory-image is to the original perception" (A.
In an image of a well-known face, for example, some parts may feel more familiar than others; when this happens, we have more belief in the accuracy of the familiar parts than in that of the unfamiliar parts.
We know some things about the future, for example what eclipses there will be; but this knowledge is a matter of elaborate calculation and inference, whereas some of our knowledge of the past comes to us without effort, in the same sort of immediate way in which we acquire knowledge of occurrences in our present environment.
There is, for example, a habit of remembering a unique event.
Arguments in favour of (for example) memory in plants are only arguments in favour of habit-memory, not of knowledge- memory.
Some knowledge of past events, for example what we learn through reading history, is on a par with the knowledge we can acquire concerning the future: it is obtained by inference, not (so to speak) spontaneously.
For example, a sound that we have just heard is present to us in a way which differs both from the sensation while we are hearing the sound and from the memory-image of something heard days or weeks ago.
As the number of the sides increases, a Polygon approximates to a Circle; and, when the number is very great indeed, say
for example three or four hundred, it is extremely difficult for the most delicate touch to feel any polygonal angles.
But when the tragic incident occurs between those who are near or dear to one another--if,
for example, a brother kills, or intends to kill, a brother, a son his father, a mother her son, a son his mother, or any other deed of the kind is done these are the situations to be looked for by the poet.
For examples of the second sort of lineage, that began with greatness and maintains it still without adding to it, there are the many princes who have inherited the dignity, and maintain themselves in their inheritance, without increasing or diminishing it, keeping peacefully within the limits of their states.