807. He who loves only the things of the memory and places wisdom therein, and holds it as a rule that a man is wise in proportion to the things his memory contains, has his thought, as before said, [n. 771], covered over with a kind of callosity, as it were, upon the removal of which he mourns and supposes that he has lost all his life and that there is nothing then left. But as it appeared to me, he is then first in a state in which he can be perfected; such it appeared to me, because, as I suppose, he also had something of good within, so that something of good oozed through. 1748, Feb. 16.