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relation to two familiars, is generally the most powerful, and the best, and, so long as it is not morally wrong, you should not reject it. There are many reasons that could be adduced, why the first imagination should be accepted, but suffice it to say, that what is imagined first to-day, will be imagined firstly to-morrow, or any number of days hence, so long as the "cause" which gave rise to the first suggestion remains the samте.
Let each imagination be vivid and distinct, abounding in detail, and clearly "pictured" with all the incidentals, do not look with disdain upon simple ideas, for only the addition of an "imaginary" straw would perhaps, be sufficient to fix in the mind what might otherwise have been irretreviably lost.
Having descanted so far upon the principle of Association, I will proceed to show how it may be used in actual practice, that this may the more clearly be done, let us return to our former example; the student will remember that we made our unfamiliar into a more familiar, by a "similar sound," we will again place them as before, that the reader may the more clearly follow me.
| Latin. |
Assimilation. |
English. |
| ARBOR. | ARBOUR. | TREE. |
"Arbour" is now one "familiar" and "Tree" the other, it is necessary now to unite these two ideas by "Association"; or,
