Assimilative memory, or, How to attend and never forget / by A. Loisette.

  • Loisette, A. (Alphonse)
Date:
1899
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Credit: Assimilative memory, or, How to attend and never forget / by A. Loisette. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The foregoing exhaustive methods of dealing with a book are recommended to those only whose natural memo- ries are not yet made powerfully retentive by the System as a Memory-TRAINER. If, however, a Pupil possesses a good natural memory and a- mastery of the System as a Device for memorising, and he has also greatly added to the power of his Concentration as well as his memory by doing all the exercises, he will not use 7?iy System^ eve7t hi the 7‘eading of the first book, except 7iow and then—certainly 7iot constantly, but only occasio7ially. Although not neces- sary in case of memories made strong by the System, yet I do most earnestly recommend the most gifted and highly endowed to deal with 07ie book in the above thorough-going manner. As for instance, Herbert Spencer’s little work on Education [four short essays]. Dr. Charles Mercier, who next to Herbert Spencer is the most original and clear sighted Psychologist in England, presents, in a work entitled ‘-‘Sanity and Insanity,” a scarcely equalled example of lucid exposition and logical development. Whichever one is selected it should be fairly and honestly handled by my method. The gain to Intellectual Comprehension from having carefully abstracted one book, and the gain to the memory from having made and memorised the Abstract, will produce results that will last through life, and make all subsequent acquisitions more easy and delightful, and make all further abstracts probably unnecessary. How TO LEARN A LONG SERIES OF UNCONNECTED FaCTS IN THE Sciences or Events in History, Chapters IN Books, or the Contents of Books. 1. It is useless for the pupil to attempt to learn the exer- cise here given unless he has carefully studied the Building, Ice, Presidential, and English Sovereign Series. The mea7i- ing of In., Ex., and Con. can be understood in application to the facts of life, the events of History and the principles and details of the Arts and Sciences, only by a complete mastery of all that precedes this exercise. 2. Let the pupil learn only ten facts, propositions or statements at each of the first few sittings, and then, as he