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9) {P}unisher would exclusively apply to Lincoln's life and birth-date.
1. Can you think of any other analytic words to express the date of the birth of Abraham Lincoln? 2. Since "h" has no figure value, could we not use "Shaper"? 3. If not, why? 4. What analytic number, word, phrase, or sentence, does the pupil retain best? 5. Are formulas made by others ever perfectly retained? 6. In what cases?
(2) "{N}oah a (34) {M}e{r}e (8) Wai{f}," (2) "{N}oah (3) {M}ay (48) {R}o{v}e," or (2) "{N}oah (3) {M}ay (48) A{r}ri{v}e," are analytic sentences where all the sounded consonants are used. But a greater variety of sentences might be found, or one sentence be more readily found in the first instance if only the initial consonants are used: as, (2) {N}oah's (3) {M}enagerie (4) A{r}k (8) {F}ull, or (2) {N}oah (3) {M}ade (4) A{r}arat (8) {F}amous, or (2) {N}oah's (3) {M}arvellous (4) {R}ainy (8) {F}lood, or (2) {N}oah's (3) {M}ighty (4) A{r}k (8) {F}loated, or (2) {N}oah (3) {M}ounted (4) A{r}arat (8) {F}irmly. Other specific analytic phrases for this event may easily be found by the student.
The superiority of analytic phrases where all the sounded consonants are used, over the analytic sentences, where only the initial consonants are employed, may be seen in the case of the number of men who enlisted in behalf of the Federal Government in the late war. The number was two millions, three hundred and twenty thousand, eight hundred and fifty-four. By initial consonants we have, (2) A{n}y (3) {M}an (2) {n}ow (0) i{s} (8) a {f}ull (5) {l}oyal (4) He{r}o. By all the sounded consonants we have--"I{n}hu{m}a{n} Ci{v}i{l} Wa{r};" the latter shorter, more significant, and more easily remembered. And, on the principle that a condensed, brief statement, if clear and definite, makes a more vivid impression than a longer one, we shall find that a short analytic phrase is better for the memory than an analytic sentence, and an analytic single word than a phrase.