brain will the mind lay hold of events in history as it grasps the ideas in a speech. The secret of remembering is that the thing must be known in all its phases before it is put away in the custody of the mind, where it is to repose until memory recalls it to activity; therefore, if we would remember the order of the succession of the presidents, the events leading up to the Revolutionary War, the poets, statesmen, or warriors of any period, we must learn the facts in connection with them. This once more brings us to the necessity of thoroughly seeing and understanding the soul, or the meaning, of a passage or a speech, the deeds of men, the productions of writers, the policies of statesmen, the formation and location of objects, before we can know them sufficiently well to remember them at will. It is useless to learn things by rote, to
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