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 time, (3) in a certain relation, will, if laid by for a season and smoked again by the same person, (1) in another place, (2) at another time, (3) in a different relation, bring back to the soul an anamnesis, or remembrance of the former place, time, and relation. And this, not imperfectly as an outline, but perfectly as in a finished picture. Which in the Fumifical Logic of Peter Pfeiffe (Petrus Fistularius) stands thus:—"Tubulus, ab aliquo fumatus; I° In loco quodam; II° In tempore quodam; III° In ratione quadumquadam [sic]; si per temporis quoddam spatium deponatur, et inde rursus ab eodem. I° In alio loco; II° In alio tempore; III° In ratione diversâ, fumetur: in animum ejus perfectam, loci, temporis, rationis prioris memoriam reducet. Quod non indistincté, ant confusé, sed distincte et perspicue, perficit."

Such being the doctrine of anamnesis in the precision of the Latin tongue, for the benefit of those who love to see a dignified subject treated of in a dignified language, let us examine somewhat closely this in-