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becomes fainter, without discoverable limit. As long as
a feeling has any intenseness, however dull, a sufficient
exertion of attention will bring out some degree of vividness. In
its relation to time (which is of special pertinency to the problem of modality) we find no
past so distant (short of babyhood) that immediate
unreckoned memory may not recall; nor is there
any remembered event so recent that when it was still more recent the memory of it, if it
were called up, was not still more vivid. However,
possibly this fact ought not to be classed as relating to vividness
proper. It does not quite conflict with the doctrine of the span of
time; yet I do not find that doctrine to be absolutely true. Indeed, regarded
otherwise that as a merely approximate statement, it is plainly self-contradictory.
Moreover, I have found that by mounting two seconds'