  The last decades of the 19th century saw the Retentional form of realism also finding favour in Anglophone circles. James Ward’s ‘Psychology’ entry for the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1886) includes the following account of the experience of succession: ‘In a succession of events, say of sense-impressions A B C D E … the presence of B means the absence of A and of C, but the presentation of this succession involves the simultaneous presence, in some mode or other, of two or more of the presentations A B C D. In presentation … all that corresponds to the differences of past, present and future is in consciousness simultaneously’. The second chapter of Shadworth Hodgson’s The Metaphysic of Experience (1898) contains a detailed phenomenological analysis of what is involved in hearing a succession of tones C-D, and the account Hodgson develops there is clearly along Retentionalist lines: “In this sequence, when we are actually hearing D, we are actually not hearing but remembering C … the content of C being now continued, but with less vividness, into the portion of the process occupied by D thereby becoming a representation of C which is no longer heard as a presentation.” (1898: 70–72) 