ith another a sentence, is most
serviceable. He had other borrowers who lived at other places. Why could
this phrase "Collect the loan," which would apply in its meaning to the
case of others, remind him of this particular debtor's home? Because, if
he had consciously devised that phrase to identify this debtor's
address, it could apply in his mind to the address of no other debtor.
Thus the _facts help us devise the number phrase, and the phrase helps
revive the facts_.

I do not, for instance, undertake in this lesson to teach the pupil that
Washington never left America but once, when he accompanied his invalid
brother to Barbadoes in 1751, in search of health. But if he knows these
facts, my method helps him retain the date, by using those facts for
this purpose; as, (1) {T}o (7) {G}ain (5) Is{l}and (1) {T}onic; or
(17)51 Hea{l}{th}. We know that "health" is an object with everybody in
all countries and in all ages, and is therefore a word of the most
general character and of the most extended application. How, then, can
it have any _special_ significance in this case? Because by knowing the
facts, in the first place, as "health" was the object of the visit of
Washington and his brother; and seeking for a date word which spells
(17)51, the pupil has discovered that this general word "health" spells
that date; and, as the pupil has applied the word "health" to this date
and to no other, he has thus made the general word specific for his
purpose. Because "tonic" is a health promoter, and "island" is a help to
recall the specific Islands of Barbadoes, the phrase (1) "{T}o (7)
{G}ain (5) Is{l}and (1) {T}onic," is more specific than "health." But
either the single word or phrase becomes specific, if the facts of the
case are assimilated, and then by the pupil are applied to furnish a
date word.

BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AND SCIENCE.

Much of the substance and pith of historic eras can be expressed in the
analytic words, phrases, or sentences with which their dates are
enunciated. If the foregoing and subsequent examples are carefully, not
hurriedly, studied, the student can readily hereafter retain a great
deal of the significance of facts, events, or epochs by his infallible
recollection of the analytic expression of their dates. As with history,
so with the arts and science, etc.

Population of the United States of America is now (1895) 67,000,000 =
{G}eneral {C}ultivation or {Sh}arp Yan{k}ees. When dealing with the