Memory : an inductive study / With an introduction by G. Stanley Hall.

  • Colegrove, F. W. (Frederick Welton), 1855-
Date:
1901
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Credit: Memory : an inductive study / With an introduction by G. Stanley Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    all the more necessary, as there were no written records. Moreover, when the Greeks realized their religious yearning in the gods and god- desses with which they peopled the heavens and the poems of Homer were sung into existence, they found a stronger incentive for transmitting their literature by the aid of memory. The peo- ple felt called to tell the coming generations of the deeds of Achilles, Agamemnon, and Mene- laus. For a long time the poems were learned and recited memoritcr. The art of the rhap- sodist arose, and Memory became the mother of the muses. As in the individual, memory at first takes the precedence of the higher intellectual pro- cesses for which it is a preparation, so the intel- lectual life of Greece unfolded. But the higher processes of philosophic speculation and thought gradually came into the foreground. The culture at Delphi prepared the way for the deepest questions which the Ionic school and its successors tried to answer. The question of the origin of things and the search for a first principle were emphasized, and the early phi- losophers paid little or no attention to the memory. This theme formed a very minor part of the teachings of the sophists, yet a good mem- ory must have been essential to conduct their legal quibbles and to develop the rich language which Socrates and Plato found ready to use. Plato (428-347 B.c.) first clearly emphasized
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