Be particular to lay hold of the facts, rivet the attention to the thought, using the plan of combination merely as a means to an end.
Many examples of grouping can easily be supplied by the student; such as, the New England states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. It is an easy matter to locate these states by placing them in a group and thus associating them with one another. In like manner, the middle states, the southern states, etc., may all be easily memorized by this simple process, as may also any facts, words, objects, or thoughts.
Take the statesmen who welded together the widely scattered opposition to the policy of Great Britain toward her American colonies in the last half of the eighteenth century, James Otis, Samuel Adams, Benjamin
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