Memory / by William Stokes.

  • Stokes, William, 1839-1900
Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memory / by William Stokes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. Portrait of the Autlior—Preface—Introduction—Table of Contents—Books upon Memory—Special Description of Stokes’s System of Memory—its diversified application—How, when, and where it can be learnt MIND AND MEMOKY—Perception—Attention— Conception — Imagination — Invention — Judg- ment—Kationality—Consciousness—Conscience —Cultivation of the Memory of primary impor- tance THE SCIENCE OF MEMORY—What is Memory ? —Brain—Folly of trusting a “ bad ” Memory— Natural and Artificial Memory—Terms “ Art of Memory,” “ Science of Memory,” “Mnemonics,” etc., defined—Mnemonics—Mnemonics adapted for the Young—Rapid Elementary Progress ; Al- phabet, Reading, Spelling, Multiplication Table, etc.—Stokes’s Syllable-ized Pictorial Alphabet . Repetition.—Association the Mainspring of Memory —Rapidity of Association : its Application—Art superior to Nature—Philosophy of Artificial liTe- mory—Antiquity of Mnemonics—Divine Origin of Mnemonics—Critics Criticised (in verse) . . Practical Utility and general Applicability of Mnemonics.—“ A Man of Business,” what is he ? (in rhyme)—Disadvantages of a “bad ” Memory —Indirect as well as direct Advantage of Mne- monics— “ Most haste, worst opeed ” . . . 1 4 16 25 35