Sentence:  More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind , intrinsic , because they were known in the beginning not by the eye <WSD>alone</WSD> but by the hand that held them . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  without any others being included or involved