CONTRAST.—When unconnected ideas have to be united in the memory so that hereafter one will recall the other, the teachers of other Memory Systems say: “What can I invent to tie them together—what story can I contrive—what foreign extraneous matter can I introduce—what mental picture can I imagine, no matter how unnatural or false the juxtaposition

You correlate the Title of the First Chapter to the Title of the Book; next, the Titles of the Chapters to each other; and then you correlate, in each chapter, the first leading idea or proposition to the title of the chapter,

a weak relation thought about is a hundred-fold stronger than mere repetition without any thinking at all.

Similarity of Sound.—(Emperor, Empty.)

This is the Second Stage of the Memory—the revival of the previous experience—the recall to consciousness of the First Impression.

Being nearly alike in meaning, we call them a case of Synonymous Inclusion,

what we all require in such cases is to compel the Intellect to stay with the Senses, and follow the printed train of thought.

EXCLUSION means Antithesis. One word excludes the other, or both words relate to one and the same thing, but occupy opposite positions in regard to it, as (Riches, Poverty.)

To remember Unfamiliar English Words or foreign words, correlate the Definition as the best known to the Unfamiliar or Foreign Word, and memorise the Correlation. In the case of Foreign Words, the last Intermediate is necessarily a case of Inclusion by sound. Sometimes there is In. by sight or by sound between a part or the whole of the English