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* START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, UNCONSCIOUS
MEMORY *
Transcribed from the 1910 A. C. Fifield edition by
David Price, email
ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
UNCONSCIOUS MEMORY
“As this paper contains nothing which deserves
the name either of
experiment or discovery, and as it is, in fact, destitute
of every
species of merit, we should have allowed it to pass
among the
multitude of those articles which must always find
their way into the
collections of a society which is pledged to publish
two or three
volumes every year. . . . We wish to raise our
feeble voice against
innovations, that can have no other effect than to
check the progress
of science, and renew all those wild phantoms of the
imagination
which Bacon and Newton put to flight from her temple.”—Opening
Paragraph of a Review of Dr. Young’s Bakerian
Lecture. Edinburgh
Review, January 1803, p. 450.
“Young’s work was laid before the Royal
society, and was made the
1801 Bakerian Lecture. But he was before his
time. The second
number of the Edinburgh Review contained an article
levelled against
him by Henry (afterwards Lord) Brougham, and this
was so severe an
attack that Young’s ideas were absolutely quenched
for fifteen years.
Brougham was then only twenty-four years of age.
Young’s theory was
reproduced in France by Fresnel. In our days
it is the accepted
theory, and is found to explain all the phenomena
of light.”—Times
Report of a Lecture by Professor Tyndall on Light,
April 27, 1880.
This Book
Is inscribed to
RICHARD GARNETT, ESQ.
(Of the British Museum)
In grateful acknowledgment of the unwearying kindness
with which he
has so often placed at my disposal his varied store
of information.
Contents:
Note by R. A. Streatfeild
Introduction by Marcus Hartog
Author’s Preface
Unconscious Memory
