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A Chapter on some Organic Laws of Personal and Ancestral Memory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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I propose to show that organic memory consists in cerebral processes, regulated by the laws of evolution and reversion, and common as vital processes to both plants and animals.
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