By W. H. GROVES. The greatest room in the world is that of improvement, and that room is within yourself. "The best part of every man's education is that which he gives himself." WALTER SCOTT. "The great business of Education should be the cultivation of the memory, for upon this everything else depends." DAVID KAY, F. R. G. S. "The leading inquiry in the Art of Education," says Prof. Bain, "is how to strengthen the memory.' "It is not so much the number of books you read, or the hours you study, as what you know and remember." F. N. EDRIDGE GREEN, M. D., F. R. C. S. Copyright By W. H. Groves 1901 394832 BIP INTRODUCTION. It would be folly to claim absolute originality for a work on memory. Loisette did this and lost at it. The ancients stole his best ideas. His laws of Inclusion, Exclusion and Concurrence were only a different way of stating the laws announced by Aristotle. Much has been written upon memory, and well written, but many of the systems of memory have substituted the artificial for the real. Some writers have excelled in treating one function of the memory and have ignored the other functions. Dr. Pick, of England, in his works on memory has treated admirably the law of Comparison, but stops there. We believe in the natural and harmonius development of memory, and that if the ideas presented in this book are carried out it will make the mind wax to receive and marble to retain. |