The economy and training of memory / by Henry J. Watt.

  • Henry J. Watt
Date:
1909
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    into the knowledge and beauty inherent in them. The process of learning enables us to realise more completely the spirit of the work, and this, again, reacts on the process of learning to make it more unitary, fluent, and perfect. Thus in any art or science does technique become com- plete. Technique is just another word for memory so exercised that reproduction will be correct, easy, and sure. It is a mistake to suppose that the highest technique consists in the most difflcult and almost impossible move- ments. There are obvious and different limits to muscular performances in all animals. The only technique worth the name is that which no power of external imitation will afford, but which becomes possible only when the thought or beauty inherent in the appropriate movements has been realised. It is a peculiarity of such technique that it is finished very soon after the inner meaning or beauty has been grasped. For Nature’s difficulty is not the making of movements. A worm can move. Her greatest effort has always been to provide brain-texture for complexity and variety of movement. To