Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget

CONCURRENCE is the sequence or co-existence of impressions or ideas that have been either accidentally or causally together.—It is either the accidental conjunction of experiences or the operation of cause and effect; since even in the latter case, it is merely the sensuous facts of immediate succession that we know about, as (Gravitation, Newton, 

‌ The nought and the nine digits are represented by the following consonants when they are sounded or pronounced; viz., 0 (nought) by s, z, or csoft as in cease, 1 by t, th, or d, 2 by n, 3 by m, 4 by r, 5 by l, 6 by sh, j, ch, or gsoft as in the first g of George, 7 ghard as in Gorge, k, chard as in cane, q, or ng, 8 by f or v, and 9 by b or p.

I call this the First Stage of the Memory—the stage of the First Impression, which is always the precursor of the Second Stage.

Whole and Part.—(Earth, Poles.)

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

My method is to keep the mind in an assimilating, absorbing condition when trying to learn by making the Intellect stay with the Senses.

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

memorising a Correlation, you so unite the two extremes in memory, that you need not afterwards recall the intermediates. The intermediates drop out of the memory

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