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idea is unfamiliar, use the first principle assimilation, try to make it more familiar by a similar sound, or use your fourth, principle, Mnemonical translation, try to make it more familiar, by converting the difficult character into a more easy one If your idea should be of the opposite class—familiar—use your second principle association by connecting one familiar idea to another, imagine or form a mental picture between the two ideas. Seeing, that no matter what you may be desirious of remembering can only be composed of two classes of ideas,—the familiar and unfamiliar,—and it having been shown that, the principles of this system will secure both of these classes, it is clear that it only requires a moderate amount of perseverance, practice, and inventiveness, on the part of the student, to enable him to apply the Science of Memory advantageously to any subject,—no matter how simple or difficult it be,—to which he may wish to turn his attention.
EXAMPLES WITH THREE PRINCIPLES.
It does not follow that because we have now in our possession four beautiful principles, that everything we require to commit to memory, necessitates the use of the whole of them, sometimes two, will be quite sufficient, as shown with the foreign words with their equivalants, (P. S. 2-7) and
