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particular person caused a deeper impression on my mind than all the other faces. Physiologically, the impressions have all been the same; every one of the faces that I saw got itself pictured on the retina, and the brain took the pictures in, and yet there was no similarity of effect upon the mind. But in the case of that man, of whom I caught, perhaps, only a glimpse, a deeper impression was made, because unlike his face, the other faces found no favourable association in my mind; most of them, perhaps, were entirely new faces about which I had never thought before, but that one face, of which I got only a glimpse, somehow found favourable associations inside. Perhaps I had pictured him in my mind for years, knew hundreds of things about him, and this one new vision of him found hundreds of kindred things inside my mind, and all these associations were aroused; this impression on my mental vision was a hundred times more than the seeing of all those different faces together, and, such being the case, a tremendous effect would be
