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[Illustration: [Handwritten: A. LOISETTE]
(MARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE)]
ASSIMILATIVE MEMORY
OR
HOW TO ATTEND AND NEVER FORGET
BY
PROF. A. LOISETTE
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON 1899
COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY IDA M. LARROWE-LOISETTE
All Rights Reserved
ENTERED AT STATIONER'S HALL, 1896. All Rights Reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
PREFACE.
Prof. A. Loisette wishes to call the attention of those who are now for the first time becoming acquainted with his System of Memory Training, that he was the first teacher of a Memory System to announce and to insist that Memory is not a separate faculty whose office it is to carry the recollective burdens of the other faculties--but that Memory is a Physiological and Psychological property of each mental act, and that such act retains the traces and history of its own action, and that there are as many memories as there are kinds of mental action, and that, therefore, Memory is always concrete, although, for convenience sake, we do speak of it in the abstract, and that consequently all Memory improvement means improvement of the Action or Manner of action of the Mental powers, and that what he imparts is the right way to USE the Intellect and Attention--and that hence his System does make and must make better observers, clearer and more consecutive thinkers, and sounder reasoners as well as surer rememberers; that in short the fundamental principle of his System is Learn by Thinking, and that his achievements as a