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How to Improve the
Memory

LESSON I
MEMORY

WHAT is memory?

Memory is the mental power of recognizing past knowledge. It is a recalling of facts, words, faces, or pictures that had been put aside. A business act has been performed and the facts are then stowed away in the recesses of the mind, but some time later a dispute arises concerning these facts and it is necessary that all the details of the transaction should be recalled; an acquaintanceship springs up between two travelers, they part,

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