Note 384 — Chapter XXIV · [360]
Reading edition
Cf. Flint, Mind, vol. i. pp. 330-383; Sully, ibid. p. 567. Most people probably have the impulse to keep bits of useless finery, old tools, pieces of once useful apparatus, etc.; but it is normally either inhibited at the outset by reflection, or, if yielded to, the objects soon grow displeasing and are thrown away.