It is not to be supposed that each division will become more difficult in proportion as it is filled with events. The reverse indeed will be the case. It is a much greater labor to retain a few facts scattered throughout the different squares, than it is to remember a multiplicity of them, each being arranged in order. If we take a few insulated facts, there can be but little connexion between them; but when there is a multiplicity of events disposed in order, by associating them together, the one assists the remembrance of the other, and a strong connecting chain is formed, the links of which can scarcely be broken. The facility of committing these facts to memory is increased by their number. In selecting the facts we should be careful to take the simple facts; and not to mistake their connecting circumstances, or consequences, for the facts themselves.
It may be asked, perhaps, is there not occasion for a different room for every country? Certainly not. The history of one country must never be separated from the history of another country. We can scarcely speak of an event of very great political importance which has happened in England, without involving the history of most of the European States, of the East Indies, etc. etc. The political interests of one country are almost always united with those of
