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scarcely possible to remember without some 

 mnemonic aid. They must be subdivided, 

 and associated with one another, or with 

 something else in order to be remembered. 

 Say that we even decimate a large collec- 

 tion of numbers, we can then get them by 

 heart, as the phrase is, each ten in succes- 

 sive association with one another, and in 

 numerical sequence with the rest, and thus 

 are able to remember the whole collection. 

 We find it often eligible to alter the ar- 

 rangement of the facts from that in which 

 they have come before us, and arbitrarily 

 or rationally to connect them with other 

 circumstances, in order to render their re- 

 membrance easy and permanent. 



I see no objection to the classification of 

 the superior intellectual faculties which 

 Gall and Spurzheim have made, into com- 

 parison, analysis or causation, and combin- 

 ation; because this arrangement refers to 



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