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connect such notions, you must form some anecdote or story that connects them. What I recommend is, not to be active in this transaction—not to form purposely a story, but merely to wait patiently until a something rises before the imagination after the two given notions have been put before the mind. That something will either be or not be a common sprung-up notion: in the first case, and in the first case only, it will serve our purpose of connecting together the two given notions: but if for the individual student there happens not to exist any common notion, and you form for him a story, he will have to commit to memory the two notions and the new story into the bargain.

Symbolically, I will represent the method of managing the 1st Phrenotypic Problem, thus—

the letter C designating the common sprung-up notion.