y 3]:
1. ANCHOR (1) Sheet Anchor (1) Sheet (1) Bed (1) BOLSTER
---- (3) Capstan (1) Night-cap (3) Pillow (3) ----
---- (3) Roadstead (1) Bedstead ----
---- (3) Sea Bed (1) ----
2. PEN (3) Ink (1) Ink-bottle (1) Smelling-bottle (3) NOSE
---- (1) Pensive (2) Gay (1) Nosegay ----
---- (3) Wiper (3) ----
3. SLAIN (3) Battle (3) Joshua (3) MOON
---- (1) Struck-down (1) Moon-struck (1) ----
---- (3) Fallen (2) Risen (3) ----
4. TEA (1) Teaspoon (1) Spooney (1) LOVER
---- (3) Sugar (1) Sweet (1) Sweetheart (1) ----
5. ARROW (3) Tell (3) Apple (3) Cider Mill (1) TREADMILL
---- (3) Flight (3) Arrest (3) Convict (3) ----
6. BEE (1) Beeswax (1) Sealing-wax (3) Title deeds (3) ATTORNEY
---- (1) Queen Bee (1) Queen's Counsel (3) ----
7. LASH (1) Eye-lash (1) Glass Eye (1) Substitute (1) VICARIOUS
Children and Adults, who have thoroughly learned Recollective Analysis
and practised its exercises, find no difficulty in making Correlations,
unless they are so afflicted with Mind-Wandering that they have never
_digested_ the impressions they have received, or unless their
intellectual operations have been twisted out of the natural order by
perversities of early education; but even in these cases the _diligent_
student will be able--usually before these pages are finished--at once
to correlate any word whatever to any or all the words in any
dictionary. A learned Professor declared that no person unacquainted
with astronomy could correlate "Moon" to "Omnibus." He did it thus:
MOON--(3) Gibbous [one of the phases of the Moon]--(1) "Bus"--(1)
OMNIBUS. I asked a pupil then present--a girl nine years old--to connect
them. She promptly replied, "MOON--(1) Honey-moon--(3) Kissing--(1)
Buss--(1) OMNIBUS." A moment after, she gave another: "MOON--(1) Full
Moon--(1) 'Full inside'--(3) OMNIBUS." Once more: "MOON--(1)
Moonlight--(1) Lightning--(3) 'Conductor'--(3) OMNIBUS." Another pupil
imagined it would be _impossible_ to correlate the following _letters_
of the alphabet to _words_ beginning with the same letters, as "A" to
"Anchor," "B" to "Bull," "C" to "Cab," "D"
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