ANALYSIS. xxiii 



sort of habitation. It is of the utmost importance that the 

 pupil be taught to reason out, as far as he can, in every 

 case the causes of the form and character of each habita- 

 tion as it comes in turn under consideration, for it is the 

 ratiocinative and imaginative faculties rather than those 

 of memory and method that this little book is intended to 

 stimulate; not because these latter mental endowments are 

 less indispensable and valuable than the former, but be- 

 cause the limits of the work do not admit of anything 

 more. It is also to be remembered that the cultivation of 

 memory and system are far more valuable when they fol- 

 low than when they precede the interest awakened by 

 appeals to the reason and imagination. 



