Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1917 — Memory's Fragile Link. [ARTICLE]

Memory's Fragile Link.

Memory depends on continuity of association. When the thread of that continuity is broken, the knowledge of the past is >gone. If, in a state of unconsciousness; one were taken entirely out of his present surroundings: if, falling asleep in one set of circumstances, like Christopher Sly in the play, he were to wake in another, were to wake to entirely new especially, if during that sleep his body were to undergo a change—he would lose on waking all knowledge of his formeC life for want of a connecting link between ■it and the mew. And this, according to one supposition, is precisely what has happened to the soul at birth. —Frederic Henry Hedge.