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18. Wherefore we find that to learn these things, whose images we
drink not in by our senses, but perceive within as they axe by
themselves, without images, is nothing else but by meditation as it
were to concentrate, and by observing to take care that those notions
which the memory did before contain scattered and confused, be laid up
at hand, as it were, in that same memory, where before they lay
concealed, scattered and neglected, and so the more easily present
themselves to the mind well accustomed to observe them. And how many
things of this sort does my memory retain which have been found out
already, and, as I said, are, as it were, laid up ready to hand,
which we are said to have learned and to have known; which, should we
for small. intervals of time cease to recall, they are again so
submerged and slide back, as it were, into the more remote chambers,
that they must be evolved thence again as if new (for other sphere they
have none), and must be marshalled [cogenda] again that they may
become known; that is to say, they must be collected [calligenda],
as it were, from their dispersion; whence we have the word cagitare.
For cogo lit collect] and cogira [I re-collect] have the same
relation to each other as ago and agito, lucia and factira. But the
mind has appropriated to itself this word [cogitation], so that not
that which is collected anywhere, but what is collected,x that is
marshalled. in the mind, is properly said to be "cogitated."'
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