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Cicero, De Oratore, II. 86 seq.

Quintilian, Instit. orat. XI. 2 seq.

Footnote 32:

Cf. Enn. IV. L. III. C. XXV. XXX and L. VI.

Footnote 33:

Cf. Siebeck: Geschichte der Psychologie, II. p. 314 seq.

Footnote 34:

The central sense or sensorium, however, according to Augustine is located in the brain, not in the heart as in Aristotle’s psychology.

Footnote 35:

De Trin. L. XIV. C. VII. See also Ferraz,—Psych. de St. Augustin, 2^{nd} ed.

Footnote 36:

Augustine does not mean to limit what follows to mathematical truths, but according to @his@ psychology the same would be true of anything that we are liable to forget.

Footnote 37:

De Musica, L. VI. C. IV.

Footnote 38:

Conf. L. X. C. XIX. Pusey’s translation.

Footnote 39:

Conf. L. X. C. VIII.

Footnote 40:

Conf. L. X. C. IX. sqq.

Footnote 41:

Ferraz.—Psych. de St. Augustin, p. 178. Cf. also De Trin. L. XV. C. XXI. XXII. XXIII. and L. XI. C. VII. and VIII.

Footnote 42:

De Trin. L. XI. C. VIII. Pusey’s translation.

Footnote 43:

De Trin. L. XI. C. VII. Pusey’s translation.

Footnote 44:

De Trin., L. XII. 15.

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