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The Contents.
CHAPTER X.

OF RETENTION.

SECT.
1. Contemplation.
2. Memory.
3. Attention, repetition, pleasure, and pain, fix ideas.
4, 5. Ideas fade in the memory.
6. Constantly repeated ideas can scarce be lost.
7. In remembering, the mind is often active.
8, 9. Two defects in the memory, oblivion and slowness.
10. Brutes have memory.
CHAPTER XI.

OF DISCERNING, &C.

SECT.
1. No knowledge without it.
2. The difference of wit and judgment.
3. Clearness alone hinders confusion.
4. Comparing.
5. Brutes compare but imperfectly.
6. Compounding.
7. Brutes compound but little.
8. Naming.
9. Abstraction.
10, 11. Brutes abstract not.
12, 13. Idiots and madmen.
14. Method.
15. These are the beginnings of human knowledge.
16. Appeal to experience.
17. Dark room.
CHAPTER XII.

OF COMPLEX IDEAS.

SECT.
1. Made by the mind out of simple ones.
2. Made voluntarily.
3. Are either modes, substances, or relations.
4. Modes.
5. Simple and mixed modes.
6. Substances single or collective.
7. Relation.
8. The abstrusest ideas from the two sources.