the phrase is easily remembered.

An impatient pupil who never learns anything thoroughly often disregards
the rule about _silent_ consonants. Braddock and most of his men were
killed by the Indians in 1755. This date this pupil translates by the
phrase, "Dock knell all" (17255). He overlooks the fact that 17 was
expressed by "Dock," and no one out of a mad-house can tell how he came
to add "knell all," unless he had forgotten that he had provided for the
7 of 17, and imagined that "k" in knell is sounded. But how account for
"n" to introduce 2? A genuine pupil would find the analytic phrase in
"{Th}ey {k}i{l}l a{l}l" (1755).

Andrew Jackson, the seventh President, died in 1845. The unindustrious
pupil imagines that "p" represents 8, and not "f" or "v," and translates
1845 into "{T}o {p}ou{r} oi{l}" (1945). The diligent student finds an
analytic translation of the date in the phrase "{Th}e {f}a{r}ewe{l}l"
(1845).

These illustrations are sufficient to convince any one that the Figure
Alphabet must be _mastered_ before the attempt is made to deal with
dates and numbers.

(2) THE PUPIL MUST POSSESS SUCH A MASTERY OF THE SUBJECT MATTER THAT HE
CAN INSTANTLY RECALL FACTS RELATING THERETO ON THE LINES OF IN., EX.,
AND CON. If he lacks such knowledge he had better deal with dates and
numbers which he must remember by synthesis [hereafter], or by Numeric
Thinking, rather than strive in vain to find _analytic_ date and number
words.

1. What mistake does the impatient pupil make?
2. Does this not convince you that the figure alphabet must be
mastered before the attempt is made to deal with dates?
3. What is the second requisite to becoming proficient in forming
analytic date words?
4. What should the pupil do if he lacks the knowledge indicated
here?
5. If the pupil fixes in mind the population of three States per
day, how long will it take him to learn the population of all
the American States?
6. How long to deal in like manner with the population of all the
countries of the globe?

It is said that there are 1,750 spoken languages. If the pupil does not
know that the tongue is moved in different ways to pronounce the
distinctive sounds of different languages, he might not think of this
analytic translation of (1750), "{T}o{ng}ue a{l}l way{s}."

The population of Kentucky according to the last census (1880) was
1,648,690. Those who do not know the Kentuckians ra