Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget
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ASSIMILATIVE MEMORY OR HOW TO ATTEND AND NEVER FORGET
PREFACE.
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ASSIMILATIVE MEMORY.
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES.
THREE LAWS OF MEMORY OR OF THINKING.
THE BRAIN TONIC EFFECT OF THE LAWS OF MEMORY RIGHTLY APPLIED.
FIRST LAW OF MEMORY.
SECOND LAW OF MEMORY.
THIRD AND LAST LAW OF MEMORY.
REMARKS ON THE THREE LAWS.
A TRAINING EXERCISE IN ATTENTION.
TRAINING THE INTELLECT TO STAY WITH THE SENSES.
IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS OF ANALYSIS.
HOW TO LEARN PROPER NAMES IN A CERTAIN ORDER OF SUCCESSION.
FIRST GROUP. Period of Organisation and Consolidation.
Remarks.
SECOND GROUP. Period of Territorial Expansion and the Growth of Internal Dissension.
Remarks.
THIRD GROUP. Period of Civil War and Reconstruction.
Remarks.
ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS. A UNIQUE EXERCISE.
NUMERIC THINKING. HOW TO NEVER FORGET FIGURES AND DATES.
A Scientific Experiment.
Exercises.
HOW TO LEARN PROSE AND POETRY BY HEART.
THE ANALYTIC SYNTHETIC METHOD APPLIED TO LONG SENTENCES.
Another Example Fully Worked Out.
A Long Legal Definition.
Moderation Advised.
Examples for Practice.
INTERROGATIVE ANALYSIS USED FOR SHORT SENTENCES.
The Same by Interrogative Analysis.
Examples for Practice.
POEMS LONG OR SHORT EASILY LEARNED BY HEART. Poe’s “Bells.”
THE BELLS.
APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTIC-SYNTHETIC METHOD.
ANALYTIC SUBSTITUTIONS. ANOTHER METHOD FOR REMEMBERING DATES AND FIGURES.
RULES. Not to be glanced at or skipped, but to be carefully studied.
HOW TO DEAL WITH DECIMAL FRACTIONS.
How to Find words with Which to Translate Dates and Numbers.
SYNTHETIC TRANSLATION OF FIGURES.
ANALYTIC DATE AND NUMBER WORDS.
DATES OF THE ACCESSION OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS.
DATES OF THE ACCESSION OF THE ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS.
EXPLANATIONS.
NUMBER OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS.
DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON.
MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES.
BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AND SCIENCE.
SPECIFIC GRAVITIES.
RIVERS.
MOUNTAINS.
LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE.
EARLY TRAINING IN FIGURES.
WHAT MUST BE DONE FOR AN ACQUIRED ATTENTION.
THOUGHTIVE UNIFICATIONS. CONNECTING THE UNCONNECTED.
HOW TO HELP THE MEMORY.
MODES OF ESTABLISHING CONNECTIONS.
EXAMPLES OF CORRELATIONS.
ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS COMPARED.
HOW TO MEMORISE A CORRELATION.
ASSIMILATIVE ASSOCIATION AND MEMORY.
RULES FOR MAKING CORRELATIONS.
ISOLATED FACTS.
HOW TO REMEMBER PROPER NAMES WHEN INTRODUCED.
EXERCISES IN CORRELATING.
LEARNING FOREIGN WORDS.
HOW TO MEMORISE DATES, &c., WHERE YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE FACTS, &c.
Serial Facts.
ORDER OF THE ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS.
EXERCISE.—CASES IN EVERY-DAY LIFE.
SPEAKING WITHOUT WRITTEN OR PRINTED NOTES.
EXERCISE.
DISTANCES OF PLANETS FROM THE SUN.
EXTRACTS FROM QUAIN’S ANATOMY. To be studied by none but Medical Students.
POISONS AND ANTIDOTES.
THE TWELVE PAIRS OF CRANIAL NERVES.
PROTOPLASM.
BOOKS LEARNED IN ONE READING.
LEARN FIRST TO MAKE ABSTRACTS OF WHAT IS NEW TO YOU.
HOW TO MAKE ABSTRACTS.
How to learn a long series of Unconnected Facts in the Sciences or Events in History, Chapters in Books, or the Contents of Books.
One Hundred Events of the Victorian Era, learned by one careful Reading or Study.
FIRST EXERCISE.
SECOND EXERCISE.
THIRD EXERCISE.
FOURTH EXERCISE.
FIFTH EXERCISE.
SIXTH EXERCISE.
ANALYSIS OF ONE HUNDRED EVENTS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA.
A CONCLUDING REMARK.
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