CHAPTER X.
ILLUSIONS OF MEMORY.
Thus far we have been dealing with Presentative Illusions, that is to say, with the errors incident to the process of what may roughly be called presentative cognition.

We have now to pass to the consideration of Representative Illusion, or that kind of error which attends representative cognition in so far as it is immediate or self-sufficient, and not consciously based on other cognition.

Of such immediate representative cognition, memory forms the most conspicuous and most easily recognized variety.

Accordingly, I proceed to take up the subject of the Illusions of Memory.[111] The mystery of memory lies in the apparent immediateness of the mind's contact with the vanished past.

In "looking back" on our life, we seem to ourselves for the moment to rise above the limitations of time, to undo its work of extinction, seizing again the realities which its on-rushing stream had borne far from us.