...tr., 1958 Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ~ Montaigne ~ Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual ~ Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784 ~ in The Idler, 1759 February 17 The secret of a good memory is attention,...

...Hume's sense that changing our judgment requires violence. In The Idler no. 44 (1759) Johnson contends, "Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation."19 The primacy of memory distinguishes Johnson's psychology from Hobbes's, whose sense is...

...human mind, that of which we make the most frequent use, or rather that of which the agent is incessant or perpetual. Memory is the primary and fundamental...which there could be no other intellectual operation. " 280 282 Sarah O'Higgins faces the challenges of coming of age in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia,...