CHAPTER X.
OF RETENTION.
1.

Contemplation The next faculty of the mind, whereby it makes a further progress towards knowledge, is that which I call RETENTION; or the keeping of those simple ideas which from sensation or reflection it hath received.
This is done two ways.
First, by keeping the idea which is brought into it, for some time actually in view, which is called CONTEMPLATION.
2.

Memory.
The other way of retention is, the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which, after imprinting, have disappeared, or have been as it were laid aside out of sight.

And thus we do, when we conceive heat or light, yellow or sweet,--the object being removed.

This is MEMORY, which is as it were the storehouse of our ideas.