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orderliness over which no supervision has been exercised?

Again-Review your attainments-recal your ideas from time to time: the miser counts his wealth-the landlord walks over his fields-should not you review the progress you have made, from week to week, and from year to year; and review with the pen if you would remember: set down upon paper the topics; writing calls forth the attention, and elicits thought. Dr. Watts has said, "There is more gained by writing once than by reading five times."

These methods are simple, but they will be effectual; whoever rigidly employs them will not employ them in vain. Thus memory will grow, not by any trickery of art; memory cannot be conferred, although the powers which constitute it may be rendered more acute-not by drenching the memory, by pouring upon it promiscuous and indiscriminate streams-by wheeling barrowfull after barrowfall into that great lumber-room, the mind, and expecting that the mind will, in its simultaneousness, by some primitive quality, separate, and reject, and preserve. Carefully, carefully, let every fact be noted and added: but, at the same time, let it be remembered, too, that memory is the most valuable which retains facts, and incorporates them into principles. The FACTOLOGIST is by no means a great mental character. Events

and dates, and anecdotes, should all be remembered as subsidiary to some general and controlling principle. All facts are valuable for the moral interpretation that may be put upon them; what is any memory worth without this? The writer once knew a man who had learned the whole of Josephus' Antiquities and Wars of the Jews,-and of what use was this? Of what use is much of the mere recollection of dates and statistics, upon which so much stress is frequently laid? A variety of disconnected facts resemble the different limbs of a corpse-dead, scattered, useless; but, when animated by some great controlling purpose, then every fact finds its appropriate place: it has its true relation when it is subsidiary. Philosophic system reunites the scattered limbs, and gives them life.

Thus it is that in every relation of life memory is necessary it gives to the Poet a greater variety of images and words. The fancy and imagination depend upon memory for the variety of their selection, and the fulness of their power; so judgment depends upon the readiness with which the memory can seize the most fitting opinions, and bring them to bear upon the case before the court. The Orator could wield no thunders or lightnings but for this power. The problems of the Mathematician, and the experiments of the Chemist, would, indeed, dissolve into thin air. Memory is

the golden thread linking all the mental gifts and excellencies together. Memory, when treated well, is like an angel ever within the soul; but, treated ill, is like a black wierd shadow, casting a baleful and remorseful eye on all within its reach.

We may add, that the period of youth is the day when memory sows the seed for some future golden harvest. The attempt to write upon the memory of childhood and of age, is like writing on water-the impression is immediately effaced: not so the memory of youth and middle life; it is like writing on rock, or granite, or marble. Perhaps there is not a more beautiful sight in the human classes than the old man, with a memory well stored, sitting by the fireplace, and giving forth the result of his experience to his descendants around him. The racy anecdote, the kindly sentence, the clever and the wise advice, the method of a sound and wise mind; the counsel of a sage warrior about to lay aside the harness, and to retire to the silence of the last deep home;it is a sublime sight; to some degree we may all realise it; for although the castles in the air fade away, and the days do come and the years draw nigh, when we say we have no pleasure in them the piles of oriental splendour we had figured in the clouds-the Aladdin lamps and the Armida Palaces do melt into thin airyet there are some visions that never perish;

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they deepen into reality and beauty ever as time rolls on; the memory of some great and venerable book of the first inspiration caught from the magic of genius to the steps by which we prosecuted our studies, until all the blaze and magnificence from the altars of knowledge enchanted and astounded us; the curious fact, the profound intimation, the revelry, the dance, and choral hymn within the soul, when some peculiarly glorious thought shone like a newly-discovered planet overhead;-all these are things never forgotten; they perhaps become more intense as we grow old, and, like the Rosicrucian lamps of the ancients, blaze out in full lustre when the body is consigned to the sepulchre.

CHAPTER VI.

MORAL HABITS.

Ir is here, in the training of the moral being, however, that the great work of education at once begins and ends; the other parts of education are objective, and outside, and apart from the mind, but this is subjective, and lies immediately within itself.

The writer will have been much misunderstood, if, all along, his readers have not perceived that his estimation of this section of education was supreme and most important; and, indeed, the preceding chapters have contained much that has especial reference to the moral discipline of the life. In reference to the matters of moral education, there are some things which ought to be attended to at the very outset; and, first and foremost, practice a rigid temperance. Intemperance is, indeed, low, mean, disgraceful, degrading. Save yourself from it by the practice of a rigid abstinence from all intoxicants; they sorely interrupt

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