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may be used. If you wish to retain your ideas in order, locate them. If you wish to remember the principles of a Science; the Heads of a Sermon, "locate" them. If you wish to deliver a discourse, a recitation, or otherwise divide your subject, and "locate" the divisions. If you wish to commit to memory Prose or Poetry, read it first very attentively divide it, pick out that which appears the most suggestive, and "locate" it in all cases by imagining clearly between that portion of the subject, and the respective position of locality. Example: The first organ of Phrenology is Amativeness which suggests "A Mat" you can readily Associate that, with the first position, by thinking from a Cocoa nut "Tree" they make a " Mat." The second, "Philoprogenitiveness," my Assimilation for the first portion of the word is "Philip" which is a bye-word for "Police-man," think then that you can see a "Philip" (policeman,) running after (or away) from a Lion, which is the name of the second position. The third organ is " Concentrativeness," it sounds like "Consent" Associate to the third position, by thinking of a young gentleman begging "Consent" to visit the House (perhaps of a lady) the third position. Take the following piece of poetry, the words marked in Italic are those picked out by me for Association:—
Why, am I thus cast upon an Isle, this solitary place?
