Chapter XIII.—Memory Retains All
Things.
20. All these things I retain in my memory, and how
I learnt them I retain. I retain also many things which I have
heard most falsely objected against them, which though they be
false, yet is it not false that I have remembered them; and I
remember, too, that I have distinguished between those truths and
these falsehoods uttered against them; and I now see that it is one
thing to distinguish these things, another to remember that I often
distinguished them, when I often reflected upon them. I both
remember, then, that I have often understood these things, and what
I now distinguish and comprehend I store away in my memory, that
hereafter I may remember that I understood it now. Therefore also I
remember that I have remembered; so that if afterwards I shall call
to mind that I have been able to remember these things, it will be
through the power of memory that I shall call it to mind.