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An
 Historical Sketch
 of
 The Conceptions of Memory among the Ancients.
Submitted as a Thesis
by
William H. Burnham,
Candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
at
Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore.
1888.
Table of Contents.
I.
 
Conceptions of Memory before Aristotle,pp.  1–11
 
 
II.
 
Aristotle’s Conceptions of Memory,pp. 12–40
 
 
III.
 
Conceptions of Memory among the Stoics and Epicureans, and in Cicero and Quintilian,pp. 41–46
 
 
IV.
 
Conceptions of Plotinus and St. Augustine,pp. 47–70
 
 
V.
 
Diseases of Memory mentioned by ancient writers,pp. 71–73
 
 
VI.
 
Ancient Systems of Mnemonics,pp. 74–76
Memory.
1
I.
Mnemosyne, Hesiodtells us, was the mother of the Muses.Without speculating as some have doneabout the reasons for this myth itis interesting as showing an appreciationof the fundamental nature ofmemory and some sort of crudeintrospective psychology dating backpossibly to pre-historic times.
Before the art of writingwas in common use men had todepend more largely than to-day upontheir memories for preserving andtransmitting their knowledge. Itis not surprising, therefore, that the2ancients put a high estimate uponmemory before they began to theorizeabout its nature. There are, ofcourse, allusions to memory in Homerand in the Hebrew Scriptures.[1]And occasionally one of the earlyGreek philosophers tries to explainsome phenomenon of memory. Butwe find no scientific study of thesubject before Aristotle.
The psychology of the Ionianschool of philosophers, as far as theycan be said to have had any at all,was sensationalism. Their views ofmemory must be conjectured fromthe fundamental principles of theirphilosophy.
3The doctrine of transmigrationas held in the Pythagoreans is ana                        
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