Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 2593

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2593. THAT NOTHING CAN BE LEARNED WITHOUT REFLECTION. When reflection is absent not [anything] comes into the memory, as is sufficiently evident; although the human sight is diffused into thousands and thousands of objects, yet nevertheless the memory retains none of them upon which he has had no external reflection. In like manner when he thinks that upon which he has had reflection the memory retains. In a word, without reflection nothing is infixed in man.


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