Show CAX OXE REMEMBER TOOTHACHE I rschoIosJsts Say That n Person Cannot Afterward Recall the Pain I an ordinary person who has at sometime some-time in his career experienced the miseries mis-eries of toothache were asked i he remembers re-members the pain in question there is very little doubt as to what his response would be says Harpers Weekly Unquestionably Un-questionably he would say he remembered remember-ed it But this incautious admission might lead at once to controversial difficulties culties for i appears that psychologists are in doubt a to whether any one can under any circumstances remember a toothache or any other pain I seems desirable to follOw this statement state-ment at once with the assurance that it is not a joke Psychologists as a rule are not humorists and they have no thought I of being funny when they assert that sei gdf bet pains and other sensations cannot be remembered I re-membered Those of them who hold this view are strictly in earnest and mean I exactly what the words imply in their most sober sense They are perfectly I eSOttet gf commonly speak cXrc remembering i re-membering pains and suppose that we do remember them But they contend that i in such a case we remember not the pain itself but the ideas that were associated II with the pain We remember for example ex-ample that we were unable to work because I be-cause we had a toothache that we applied ap-plied remedies to i unsuccessfully that finally we went to a dentist and had the tooth extracted and at once gained relief I re-lief All this we remember very vividly I as every one admits But it is said we do not retain in our minds the slightest trace of the pain itself as a memory or of the sensation of relief that came when the pain ceased To the person not accustomed to looking look-ing sharply into the darker corners of his own mind this will no doubt seem a very unnecessary splitting of hairs But the I psychologists do not so regard it They j tare t-are discussing the matter pro and con I with a good deal of vigor this being indeed I In-deed one of the controversies that go to make up the current history of that live world apart In which the philosophers I |