to be said, nor any word by which it is to be expressed. Persons who could never before get by heart either prose or poetry, have, by a short practice of this method, acquired the greatest readiness and facility.
"4. Geography. This part of geography[1] has only been learned by my common manner of fixing in the memory proper names in general, and that of noting the arithmetical figures wherever we meet them. The true system of geography is the object of more than one of my lectures; and by this new system, the study acquires a degree of facility, and the science itself a degree of perfection, of which it was never thought susceptible, and yet without which it can never be essentially what it ought to be. Those who would think it needless, or of no use, to know the situation of every remarkable point of the globe by degrees of longitude and latitude, have to consider, if without these degrees, geography itself, or any geographical chart, could ever exist; and, if not, they surely cannot maintain that what is essential to geography itself may be neglected in the study of geography. This perfection is not only given to the science by my system, but is also attained with greater facility
- ↑ This refers to the longitude and latitude of the fifty cities repeated by the pupil.
