to MEMORY. 



own memories. We believe the merest child or 

 the most ignorant peasant knows and remembers 

 a number and variety of things which, when all 

 put together, ought easily to surprise the most 

 learned and thouglitful of men. Where the room 

 can be found "in one small brain" to stow away 

 80 many facts and fancies is a real puzzle of no 

 email magnitude. 



Look first, for example, at the mere wealth and 

 copiousness of language. Every one of us is fully 

 acquainted with his mother-tongue to the extent 

 of at least three or four thousand words, every 

 one of these words answering to an idea, and 

 calling up in his mind the picture of an object or 

 action with which it is associated. Think of the 

 number of visible things alone of which we know 

 and remember the names. Let us take a single 

 small group of objects only — say fruits — and 

 consider of how many such we know the names, 

 and can immediately conjure up a mental picture. 

 To begin with, there are strawberries, raspberries, 

 gooseberries, currants, and all the similar com- 

 mon garden favorites. Then there are black- 

 berries, whortleberries, haws, sloes, and an endless 

 succession of wild kinds. Next, the orchard sup- 

 plies us with apples, pears, peaches, plums, apri- 

 cots, nectarines, quinces, and medlars. Once 

 more, there are the imported exotic kinds, oranges 

 and lemons, pine-apples and dates, figs and cocoa- 



