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other. I will now place them as under, with the Latin on the left, the Assimilation next, and the English translation next.
| Latin. |
Assimilation. |
English. |
| ARBOR. | ARBOUR. | TREE. |
It is now evident that we have to remember that "Arbour" means Tree, but to understand how that may be readily done, you must "carefully" study the next principle.
THE SECOND PRINCIPLE OF MEMORY.
association.
Association, the second principle of the Science, is derived from the Latin,—Socius, which means, a companion, or one that is familiar; thus the "association of ideas," means the uniting of those ideas that are already "familiar." I will therefore briefly define the second principle thus:—
To Associate, is to connect one "familiar" idea to the other by "imagination." That is to be done by thinking of something that is either likely or unlikely to be said or done in relation to the two familiars. Do not reject an imagination because you think it ridiculous, or that it never could have been a possibility; for they, as a rule, are the imaginations which are the most striking. The first imagination which you receive in
