--55' (S) } (3) {M}athematical (3) {M}apping (5) Wi{l}l
(15) CAPETOWN } (5) {L}ast.
Long. = 18 deg.--28' (E) } (1) {T}able Bay (8) {F}avours (2) {N}umerous
} (8) {V}essels.

[F] No one supposes that Butler really stole spoons.

[G] Lord Elgin, the present Viceroy, gave Prof. Loisette H. E.'s
patronage when the Professor lectured in Calcutta. As his system is the
foe of all artificial methods, it is _par excellence_ the "Natural"
System.

EARLY TRAINING IN FIGURES.

If the mind-wandering mode of _rote_ learning is no longer practised,
but an _assimilating_ method is substituted for it; if we abolish the
"mind-wrecking" procedure of forcing immature minds into and through
studies which they cannot comprehend, and which, therefore, create
chronic habits of Inattention; and if the idea of numbers and their
elementary processes are _objectively_ taught, until habits of sure
enumeration and calculation are formed, then, when the child reaches
maturity, he will rarely if ever require any conscious aid in
remembering a series of 2, 3, 4, or more figures.

Meantime, a thorough training in this system tends to do away with the
injurious effects of false mental habits; to set the Memory and
Attention at work in a natural way, and greatly strengthen both; and
while learning a large number of dates in a short time, or many figures
in one series may still require the use of the System, unless the
Numeric Thinking prior to this chapter has been mastered, yet, in the
ordinary way of meeting figures in reading, study, or business, there
will seldom occur any _necessity_ for resorting to the method taught in
this lesson.

WHAT MUST BE DONE FOR AN ACQUIRED ATTENTION.

In the case of those who have not inherited, but who have _acquired_, a
great power of Attention, a decided _benefit_ will ensue, however, if
throughout life they occasionally use the System in regard to numbers
and in learning prose and poetry by the Analytic-Synthetic and
Interrogative Analysis Methods.

1. Will a pupil always require an aid to remember figures?
2. What is required of him in order to enable him to do away with
any _conscious_ aid?
3. What does a thorough training in my system accomplish in the
meantime?
4. Will there ever be any _necessity_ of using the figure alphabet?
5. Will not a decided benefit ensue to those who have acquired a
great power of attention?