"Immediately following is memory, without which nothing could be proved.
"It is memory, which, by renewing the motive power of reason, allows us to judge of the proportion of things, grasped by the senses in the present as related to those which come to us from the past.
"Without memory it would be impossible to make a mental comparison.
"It would be most difficult to determine the true nature of an event, announced by perception, if an analogous sensation, previously experienced, had not just permitted us to classify it by close examination or by differentiating it.
"Memory is a partial resurrection of a past life, whose reconstruction has just permitted us to attribute a true value to the phases of existence.
"It is in preserving the memory of things that we are called upon to compare them and then to judge of them.
"Thought is produced immediately after perception, and the recollection, very often automatic, that it creates within us.
"It is the inception of the idea which it engenders by a series of results.
"Thought permits the mind to exercise its judgment without allowing itself to be influenced by the greatness or humility of the idea.
"By virtue of corresponding recollections, it will associate the present perception with the past representations, and will take an extension, more or less pronounced, according to the degree of intellectuality of the thinker, and according to the importance of the object of its reflections.