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Chapter twenty eight, Memory Training quote
lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain,

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our thoughts are link'd by many a
hidden chain awake, but one and

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low what myriads rise, Each stamps
its image as the other flies. Hail

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memory, Hail in thy exhaustlest mine
from age to age, unnumbered treasures shine

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thought and her shadowy brood, Thy
call obey and place and time a subject

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to thy sway unquote Samuel Roger's Pleasures
of Memory. Many an orator like Thackeray,

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has made the best part of his
speech to himself on the way home

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from the lecture hall. Presence of
mind, it remained for Mark Twain to

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observe is greatly promoted by absence of
body. A hole in the memory is

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no less a common complaint than a
distressing one. Henry Ward Beecher was able

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to deliver one of the world's greatest
addresses at Liverpool because of his excellent memory.

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In speaking of the occasion, mister
beech has said that all the events,

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arguments, and appeals that he had
ever heard, or read or written

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seemed to pass before his mind as
oratorical weapons, and standing there he had

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but to reach forth his hand and
quote, seize the weapons as they went

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smoking by unquote. Ben Johnson could
repeat all he had written. Scaliger memorized

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the Iliad in three weeks. Locke
says, quote without memory, man is

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a perpetual infant unquote. Quintillian and
Aristotle regarded it as a measure of genius.

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Now, all this is very good. We all agree that a reliable

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memory is an invaluable possession for the
speaker. We never dissent for a moment

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when we are solemnly told that his
memory should be a storehouse from which a

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pleasure he can draw, facts,
fancies, and illustrations. But can the

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memory be trained to act as the
warder for all the truths that we have

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gained from thinking, reading, an
experience? And if so, how let

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us see? Twenty years ago a
poor immigrant boy employed as a dishwasher in

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New York wandered into the Cooper Union
and began to read a copy of Henry

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George's Progress and Poverty. His passion
for knowledge was awakened, and he became

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a habitual reader. But he found
that he was not able to remember what

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he read, so he began to
train in his naturally poor memory until he

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became the world's greatest memory expert.
This man was the late mister Felix Beryl.

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Mister Beryl could tell the population of
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thousand inhabitants. He could recall the
names of forty strangers who had just been

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introduced to him, and was able
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eighth, seventeenth, or in any
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important event in history, and could
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but could correlate them perfectly. To
what extent mister Beryl's remarkable memory was

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natural and required only attention for its
development seems impossible to determine with exactness,

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but the evidence clearly indicates that,
however useless were many of his memory feats,

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A highly retentive memory was developed,
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The freak memory is not worth striving
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decidedly is. Your power as a
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your ability to retain impressions and them
fourth when occasion demands, and that sort

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of memory is like muscle. It
responds to training heading what not to do

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it is sheer misdirected effort to begin
to memorize by learning words by rote,

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for that is beginning to build a
pyramid at the apex. For years,

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our scores were cursed by this vicious
system. Vicious not only because it is

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inefficient, but for the more important
reason that it hurts the mind. True,

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some minds are natively endowed with a
wonderful facility in remembering strings of words,

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facts, and figures, but such
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normal person must be labor and force
the memory to acquire in this artificial way.

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Again, it is hurtful to force
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or mental weariness. Health is the
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the operation memory is no exception.
Finally, do not become a slave to

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a system. Knowledge of a few
simple facts of mind and memory will set

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you to work at the right end
of the operation. Use these principles,

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whether included in a system or not, but do not bind yourself to a

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method that tends to lay more stress
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development of memory itself. It is
nothing short of ridiculous to memorize ten words

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in order to remember one fact heading
the natural laws of memory, Concentrated attention

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at the time when you wish to
store the mind is the first step in

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memorizing, and the most important one
by far. You forgot the fourth of

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the list of articles your wife asked
you to bring home, chiefly because you

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allowed your attention to waver for an
instant when she was telling you. Attention

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may not be concentrated attention. When
a siphon is charged with gas, it

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is sufficiently filled with the carbonic acid
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mind charged with an idea is charged
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Too much charging will make the siphon
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to insanity. Adequate attention, then, is the fundamental secret of remembering.

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Generally, we do not give a
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important. Almost everyone has seen how
the seeds in an apple point and has

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memorized the date of Washington's death.
Most of us, have perhaps wisely forgotten

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both. The little nick in the
bark of a tree is healed over and

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obliterated in a season, but the
gashes from the trees around Gettysburg are still

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apparent after fifty years. Impressions that
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deep impressions can be recalled at will. Henry Ward Beech has said, quote

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one intense hour will do more than
dreamy years unquote to memorize ideas and words.

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Concentrate on them until they are fixed
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and accord to them their true importance. Listen with the mind, and you

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will remember. How shall you concentrate? How would you increase the fighting effectiveness

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for a man of war? One
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and number of its guns. To
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and the force of your mental impressions
by tending to them intensely. Loose skimming

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reading, and drifting habits of reading
destroy memory power. However, as most

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books and newspapers do not warrant any
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do all together to condemn this method
of reading, but avoid it when you

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are trying to memorize. Environment has
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have learned to be alone in a
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out to memorize a fact or a
speech, you may find the task easier.

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Away from all sounds and moving objects. All impressions foreign to the one

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you desire to fix in your mind
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in memorizing is to pick out the
essentials of the subject, arrange them in

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order, and dwell upon them intently. Think clearly of each essential one after

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the other. Thinking a thing not
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essentials is really memorizing. Association of
ideas is universally recognized as an essential in

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memory work. Deed, whole systems
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principle. Many speakers memorize only the
outlines of their addresses, filling in the

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words at the moment of speaking.
Some have found it helpful to remember an

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outline by associating the different points with
objects in the room. Speaking on peace,

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you may wish to dwell on the
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failure of war, and so lead
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on the platform, if you will
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objects in the room, this association
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may be prone to forget your third
point. But you remember that once when

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you were speaking, the electric lights
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will help you to remember failure.
Such associations, being unique, tend to

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stick in the mind. While recently, speaking on the six kinds of imagination,

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the present writer formed them into an
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motor, gustatory of factory, and
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the six points were easily remembered in
the same way that children are taught to

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remember. The spelling of teasing words
separate comes from sepa and as an automobile

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driver remembers that two seas and then
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Cottman Street, Haines Street, and
Henry Street. So important points in

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your address may be fixed in mind
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very work of devising the scheme is
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simple. It is one of noting
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or a truth, or even a
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of this tendency of the mind to
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aid to memory. Thurlough Weed,
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because he so easily forgot the names
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He corrected the weakness, relates Professor
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of attending carefully to names he had
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them to his wife every evening.
Doubtless, missus Weed was heroically long suffering,

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but the device worked admirably. After
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close the book, reflect and repeat
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thoughtfully aloud has been found by many
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what you wish to remember. This
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number and strength of your mental impressions. By utilizing all your avenues of impression.

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It will help to fix a speech
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it aloud, listen to it,
write it out, and look at it

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intently, you have then impressed it
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auditory, muscular and visual impressions.
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They are able to recall things heard
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the visual memory. They are best
able to recall sight impressions. As you

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recall a walk you have taken,
are you able to remember better the sights

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or the sounds? Find out what
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and use them the most to fix
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kind of impression. Daily habit is
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from the marathon runner. Regular exercise, though ever so little, daily will

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strengthen your memory in a surprising manner. Try to describe in detail the dress,

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looks, and manner of the people
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the room you are in, close
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closely the landscape and write out a
detailed description of it. How much did

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you miss notice the contents of the
show windows on the street? How many

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features are you able to recall?
Continual practice in this feat may develop in

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you as remarkable proficiency as it did
in Robert Oudin and his Son. The

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daily memorizing of a beautiful passage in
literature will not only lend strength to the

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memory, but will store the mind
with gems for quotations, But whether by

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little or much, add daily to
your memory power by practice. Memorize out

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of doors. The buoyancy of the
wood, the shore, or the stormy

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night on deserted streets may freshen your
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countless others. Lastly, cast out
fear. Tell yourself that you can,

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and will and do remember by pure
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Be obsessed with the fear of forgetting, and you cannot remember. Practice the

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reverse. Throw aside your manuscript crutches. You may tumble once or twice,

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but what matters that for you are
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run. Heading memorizing a speech.
Now, let us try to put into

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practice the foregoing suggestions. First,
reread this chapter, noting the nine ways

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by which memorizing may be helped.
Then read over the following selection from Beecher,

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Applying some any of the suggestions as
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the selection firmly in your mind.
Make mental note of write down, if

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you must, the succession of ideas. Now memorize the thought. Then memorize

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the outline the order in which the
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the exact wording. No. When
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faithful attention to directions, you will
not find memorizing easy unless you have previously

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trained your memory or it is naturally
retentive. Only by constant practice will memory

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becomes strong. And only by continually
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You will, however, have made
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mean matter quote heading the Reign of
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that if you were to go and
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America, you would have a very
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either, if I just look upon
the surface of things. Why men will

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say, it stands to reason that
sixty million ignorant of law, ignorant of

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constitutional history, ignorant of jurisprudence,
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of currency, sixty million people that
never studied these things are not fit to

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rule. Your diplomacy is as complicated
as ours, and is the most complicated

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on earth. For all things grow
in complexity as they develop toward a higher

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condition. What fitness is there in
these people? Well, it has not

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democracy merely. It is a representative
democracy. Our people do not vote in

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mass for anything. They pick out
captains of thought. They pick out the

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men that do know, and they
send them to the legislature to think for

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them, and then the people afterwards
ratify or disallow them. But when you

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come to the legislature, I am
bound to confess that the thing does not

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look very much more cheering on the
outside. Do they really select the best

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men? Yes, in times of
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ordinary time kissing goes by favor.
You know what the duty of a regular

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republican democratic legislator is, It is
to go back again next winter. His

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second duty is what His second duty
is to put himself under that extraordinary providence

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that takes care of legislator's salaries.
The old miracle of the prophet and the

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meal and the oil is out done
immeasurably in our days. For they go

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their poor one year and go home
rich in four years. They become money

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lenders, or by a trust in
that gracious providence that takes care of legislator's

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salaries. Their next duty after that
is to serve the party that sent them

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up. And then if there is
anything left of them, It belongs to

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the Commonwealth. Someone has said very
wisely that if a man traveling wishes to

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relish his dinner, he had better
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it is cooked. If a man
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he had better not go to the
legislature to see where that is cooked.

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Henry Ward Beecher, from a lecture
delivered in Exeter Hall, London, eighteen

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eighty six, when making his last
tour of Great Britain, heading in case

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of trouble, But what are you
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you should forget your points and your
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This is a deplorable condition that sometimes
arises and must be dealt with. Obviously,

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you can sit down and admit defeat. Such a consummation is devoutly to

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be shunned. Walking slowly across the
platform may give you time to grip yourself,

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compose your thoughts, and stave off
disaster. Perhaps the surest and most

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practical method is to begin a new
sentence with your last important word. This

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is not advocated as a method of
composing a speech. It is merely an

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extreme measure which may save you in
tight circumstances. It is like the fire

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department. The less you must use
it, the better. If this method

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is followed very long, you're likely
to find yourself talking about plum pudding or

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Chinese Gordon in the most unexpected manner. So, of course you will get

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back to your lines the earliest moment
that your feet have hit the platform.

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Let us see how this plan works. Obviously your extemporized words will lack somewhat

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of polish, but in such a
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Now you have come to a dead
wall after saying quote Joan of Arc fought

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for liberty unquote. By this method
you might get something like this quote.

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Liberty is a sacred privilege for which
mankind always had to fight these struggles platitude,

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but push on fill the pages of
history. History records the gradual triumph

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of the serf over the lord,
the slave over the master. The masters

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continually tried to usurp unlimited powers.
Power during the medieval Ages accrue to the

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owner of the land with a spear
and a strong castle. But the strong

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castle and spear were of little avail. After the discovery of gunpowder. Gunpowder

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was the greatest boon that liberty had
ever known. Unquote. Thus far you

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have linked one idea with another rather
obviously, But you are getting your second

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wind now and may venture to relax
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And so you say, quote,
with gun powder, the humblest surf in

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all the land, could put an
end the life of the tyrannical baron behind

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the castle walls. The struggle for
liberty with gunpowder as its aid, wrecked

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empires and built up a new era
for all mankind. In a moment more,

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you've gotten back to your outline,
and the day is saved. Practicing

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exercises like the above will not only
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when your memory misses fire, but
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in speaking. Stock up with ideas, heading questions, and exercises. One,

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pick out, and state briefly the
nine helps to memorizing suggested in this

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chapter. Two. Report on whatever
success you may have had with any of

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the plans for memory culture suggested in
this chapter, have any been less successful

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than others? Freely criticize any of
the suggested methods. Four, Give an

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original example of memory by association of
ideas. Five, List in order the

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chief ideas of any speech in this
volume. Six, Repeat them from memory.

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Seven, Expand them into a speech
using your own words. Eight.

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Illustrate practically what you would do if, in the middle of the speech on

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progress, your memory failed you and
you stopped suddenly on the following sentence quote

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the last century saw Marvel's progress in
varied lines of activity. Nine. How

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many quotations that fit well in the
speaker's tall chest can you recall from memory?

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Ten memorize the poem on page forty
two. How much time does it

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require? End of Section twenty eight