A plain case of Inclusion by sound.
=Dying.= } Con.
=Cholera.= }
We know that cholera _causes_ numerous deaths; that people die in great
numbers wherever it prevails.
=Cholera.= } Con.
=Terror.= }
Concurrence includes all cases of Cause and Effect, Instrument or Means
to End, Person by whom or Thing by which, &c. Cholera causes terror.
Terror is the _effect_ of the existence of the cholera. Now carefully
read over the eleven words just considered, and think out the relations
between them.
Good Princess.
Pocahontas.
Capt. John Smith.
Anvil.
Heavy.
Gravitation.
Sir Isaac Newton.
"Diamond."
Dying.
Cholera.
Terror.
Now recite them from memory at least five times forward and backward,
and then recite the entire thirty words from Building to Terror, and
from Terror to Building, the same number of times.
For further training, let each pupil recite the foregoing series of
thirty words forward and backward two or three times per day for an
entire month. He need not stop further study, but whatever else he
learns let him at least practise this daily recital for one month.
REMARKS ON THE THREE LAWS.
1. Since words have different meanings, we may sometimes find that a
pair of words exemplify all three Laws, as plough and sword. The
relation between them may be In., since both of them are _cutting_
instruments; one cuts and hacks human beings and the other cuts and
turns over the soil. It may be Ex., in a metaphorical sense, as one is
the emblem of peace and the other of war, and it may be Con., as we have
_often thought of them together_ as we read in the Bible of beating
swords into ploughshares.
2. Learning a series of words by heart by thinking of the _Relations_
between them is wholly unlike learning it by _rote_. In the latter case,
three or five words at a time or all ten words are read over from 10 to
20 times. This reading secures scarcely anything more than a _succession
of sights to the eye_ or _sounds to the ear_. No _study_ of the words is
required. The _action_ of the _intellect_ is not invoked. It is the
_mere sensuous_ impression of Eye or Ear or both together that holds the
words together, and thus _many or endless_ repetitions are required to
memorise a series which a _conscious thoughtful use of those Laws_
enables us to learn by _one painstaking_ perusal.
Another way of learning such a series by _rote_, is to lim
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