"To explain this, we must consider that the first Image which an outward Object imprints on our Brain is very slight; it resembles a thin Vapour which dwindles into nothing, without leaving the least track after it. But if the same Object successively offers itself several times, the Image it occasions thereby increases and strengthens itself by degrees, till at last it acquires such a consistency (if I may so call it) as makes it subsist as long as the Machine itself. A Stock of Images having been thus acquired, they each have their respective little Cell or Lodge, where they go and hide."
Hibernicus's Letters, No. 76 [Dublin Weekly Journal]
At least 4 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1726, 1729, 1734).<br>
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The <u>Dublin Weekly Journal</u> ran from 3 April 1725 to 25 March 1727.<br>
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Text from James Arbuckle, <u>A Collection of Letters and Essays on Several Subjects: Lately Publish'd in the Dublin Journal. In Two Volumes</u> (London: Printed by J. Darby and T. Browne, 1729). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Collection_of_Letters_and_Essays_on_Se.html?id=q70PAAAAQAAJ">Link to vol. 2 in Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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Republished as <u>Hibernicus's Letters: or, a Philosophical Miscellany</u> (London: Printed for J. Clark, T. Hatchet, E. Symon, 1734). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3324604262&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;