WHAT APPETITE KEEPS IS AN AFFECTION, BUT NOT A MEMORY.

Must we attribute sensation to each power, but in a different manner?

In this case, for instance, it will be sight, and not appetite, which

will perceive sense-objects; but appetite will be later wakened by

sensation which will be "relayed," (as the Stoics would say); and

though it does not judge of sensation, it will unconsciously feel the

characteristic affection. The same state of affairs will obtain with

anger. It will be sight which will show us an injustice, but it will

be anger which will resent it. Just so, when a shepherd notices a wolf

near his flock, the dog, though he have not yet observed anything, will

be excited by the smell or noise of the wolf. It certainly is appetite

which experiences pleasure, and which keeps a trace of it; but this

trace constitutes an affection or disposition, and not a memory. It

is another power which observes the enjoyment of pleasure, and which

remembers what occurred. This is proved by the fact that memory is

often ignorant of the things in which appetite has participated, though

appetite still preserve traces thereof.

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