Artificial Memory

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AKTIFICIAL MEMORY. INTRODUCTORY. There are many natural operations of the mind, which, when properly understood and performed, assist the memory wonderfully. Some of these have long been in use under the names of Mnemonics (derived from a Greek word, meaning to remember), and Artificial Memory, but, owing...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AKTIFICIAL MEMORY. INTRODUCTORY. There are many natural operations of the mind, which, when properly understood and performed, assist the memory wonderfully. Some of these have long been in use under the names of Mnemonics (derived from a Greek word, meaning to remember), and Artificial Memory, but, owing to the short-sighted policy of the teachers of these methods, who exact a promise of secrecy from their pupils, the systems are not much known to the general public. Books on Memory have certainly been published, but the greater part of them are mere advertisements of methods taught by their authors, and contain nothing new. Men of genius and high standing have praised and advocated artificial memory aids, and a host of living scholars recommend their use, yet there are persons who, without even investigating the merits of the system, or from thoughtlessness, declaim against the adoption of artificial aids. This is rather amusing, when we consider that reading, writing and printing are but artificialmeans of presenting ideas to the memory. What is the written word memory? It is an artificial combination of artificial signs, which, by common consent, represents to our memory that particular power of the mind artificially named memory. The antagonists of mnemonics reason to this effect. To bring ideas before the memory by the artificial means of reading, writing and printing, is wise; but to bring flie same ideas before the memory by any other artificial mode, is folly. Such able reasoning is, perhaps, too profound to be understood in our unenlightened times, but as we advance, we shall no doubt see more clearly. Others, again, will not listen to the facts that proclaim artificial memory one of the easiest arts to learn, and to apply, but state that they canno...