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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    tants, 73 reversed becomes 37—or only i more than 36. This I placed at the end of or after 36 makes the 361. Now 37 reversed is 73, and then follows 361, making the total to be 73,361. Let the attentive pupil observe that this method does not give any set of rules for thinking in the same manner in regard to different sets or example of numbers. That would be impossible. Thinking or finding relations amongst the objects of thought must be differently worked out in each case, since the figures themselves are differently grouped. The foregoing cases in regard to population will suffice for those who live in the Australian colonies, and to others they will teach the method of handling such cases, and leave them the pleasure of working out the process in regard to the population where they reside, or other application of the method they may wish to make. Great encouragement is found in the circumstance that after considerable practice in dealing with numerous fig- ures through In., Ex., and Con., new figures are self- remembered from the habit of assimilating numbers. They henceforth make more vivid impressions than formerly. Inclusion embraces cases where the same kind of facts or the principles were involved, or the same figures occur in different dates with regard to somewhat parallel facts— End of Augustus’s empire [death] 14 A.D.—End of Charle- magne’s [death] 814 A.D., and end of Napoleon’s [abdi- cation] 1814 A.D. Exclusion implies facts from the opposite sides relating to the same events, conspicuously opposite views held by the same man at different periods, or by different men who were noticeably similar in some other respects, or antithesis as to the character or difference in the nationality [if the two nations are frequent foes] of different men in whose careers, date of birth, or what not, there was something distinctly parallel—Egbert, first King of England, died 837. William IV., last King of England, died 1837. What a vivid exclusion here for instance : Abraham died 1821 B.C., and Napoleon Bonaparte died 1821 A.D. Concurrences are found in events that occur on the same date or nearly so, or follow each other somewhat closely.