milation is thus established in the pupil's mind, the
System as such is no longer consciously used.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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1--FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF ASSIMILATIVE MEMORY. 1

2--BRAIN TONIC; or, The stimulating Power of the Method. 6

3--Educating the Intellect to stay with the senses of
Sight and Hearing; or, Cure of Mind Wandering. 15

4--Learning any Series of Proper Names--American
Presidents. 25

5--The Unique Case of the English Sovereigns--How to learn
their Succession quickly. 31

6--NUMERIC THINKING; or, Learning the longest sets of
figures almost instantly. 38

7--DECOMPOSITION OR RECOMPOSITION, AND INTELLECTUAL
INQUISITION; or, How to learn Prose and Poetry by
heart, with numerous examples, including Poe's Bells. 47

8--ANALYTIC SUBSTITUTIONS; or, A Quick Training in Dates,
etc., Dates of the Accession of American Presidents
and of the English Kings, Specific Gravities, Rivers,
Mountains, Latitudes and Longitudes, etc. 66

9--THOUGHTIVE UNIFICATIONS; or, How to never forget Proper
Names, Series of Facts, Faces, Errands, Conversations,
Speeches or Lectures, Languages, Foreign Vocabularies,
Music, Mathematics, etc., Speaking without notes,
Anatomy, and all other Memory wants. 109

10--ACME OF ACQUISITION; or, Learning unconnected facts,
rules and principles in the Arts, Sciences, Histories,
etc., etc., chapters in books, or books themselves, in
one reading or study. 149

11--Learning one hundred facts in the Victorian Era, with
dates of year, month, and day of each in one
thoughtive perusal. 159

ASSIMILATIVE MEMORY.

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES.

What is the basic principle of my system? It is, _Learn_ by _Thinking_.
What is _Attention_? It is the will directing the activity of the
_intellect_ into some particular channel _and keeping it there_. It is
the opposite of mind-wandering. What is thinking? It consists in
_finding relations_ between the objects of thought with an _immediate
awareness_ of those relations.

What is