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Having agreed upon it that the strategical and tactical movement of the Prussian army at the battle of Waterloo was a movement on the right flank of Napoleon, we wish to connect these two notions so strongly, &c.
And so on through the whole chain of human studies, be they those of languages, sciences, or arts. Each indiviual study consists of a greater or less number of such couples to be made indissolubly to stick together.
The process, then, of committing to memory and recollecting, consists of the following three stages:—
| 1. It must be agreed upon which two notions should always follow one another. |
| 2. The two notions of the thus agreed upon couple must be stuck together, and impressed upon the brain; and, |
| 3. One of these two notions must be given, in order that the other may spring up before the imagination. |
These three conditions are all and each indispensable for the process of memory.
