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" The cultivation of one species of memory may assist 

 or it may hinder another kind of memory, according as 

 the mental activity by which the attention is fixed on 

 one subject aids or hinders the mental activity of the 

 other kind of memory." And Mr. Kay writes : (p. 13.) 



"We may cultivate the memory for persons without 

 at all improving that for places, and a good memory for 

 colors may afford little help toward the remembrance of 

 forms." Dr. Harris adds : (Kay, p. 7.) 



" On the other hand, the memory of names assists the 

 memory of persons, and that of places assists that of 

 forms." 



We belive this erroneous view of memory, as a single 

 faculty, has led to most of the systems of mnemonics. 



Two girls stand talking with a friend, who sees in the 

 sunset a wondrous beauty. As the friend tries to con- 

 vey to them a notion of what she sees, they try to see, 

 but fail to hear in her words more than sounds, and to 

 see in the sunset other than the view common to 

 thousands who never see the glory of a sunset and who 

 never experience the inspiration of a sunrise. 



But the girls cannot forget the beauty of that friend's 

 face as she essayed to awaken their souls to the beauty 

 of the heavens. And day after day they study the sun- 

 set, wondering at the beauty of the friend's face and 

 questioning what she saw so beautiful in that sunset. 

 After many, many days, their questioning is answered. 

 They no longer wonder at the beauty of their friend's 

 face, because they now know that it was only the re- 

 flection of the beauty in the sunset — rather it was the 

 activity of her soul giving expression to her face. They 

 have discovered the glory in the sunset. 



Is it strange that in former days the two girls remem- 

 bered no particular sunset, and that now the heavens are 

 full of glory to them, and that no two sunsets are 

 longer "all alike," and that now they describe, with 



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