How to Improve the Memory
separating truth from error, and virtue from vice.
Here we have a thought beautifully brought out by means of placing it in opposition with another thought. It is the speaker's intention to magnify the beauty and glory of the light of the soul, and in order to do this effectively, he contrasts it with the magnificence of the material light. It will be the simplest thing imaginable to commit to memory this beautiful passage if we will but only lay hold of the thought, and we are enabled to lay hold of the thought by means of the contrast. Let us take it up in this manner: The material creation was beautiful when the new-born sun burst forth in all his splendor and caused the darkness to flee away. This is the first part of the passage for us attentively to notice. Then
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