| Memory has been defined to be a logical | | | | should inspect, unify and arrange ideas as they |
| classification of facts. Few things are more | | | | are presented. |
| important than a logical classification of facts. | | | | We should classify facts as we read. When ideas |
| Without it man is a machine. With it, a master. | | | | come to the mind they should be inspected, |
| The logical classification of facts has been made | | | | arranged and unified. If we read two books, one |
| possible and practicable by the arrangement of | | | | with a classification of facts, the other without, |
| nature. | | | | we will find at the end of a year that one book |
| A logical classification of facts develops the mind. | | | | will be fresh in memory and influential in life, and |
| It makes one think. It compares ideas naturally. A | | | | the other will be a phantom of the past. |
| great writer says that thinking is comparing ideas | | | | Classification varies according to the object, |
| logically. It does not gather knowledge in bits and | | | | whether it be in the dominion of mathematics, |
| scraps, in disconnected parts-but assigns each | | | | physics, ethics, or any of the sciences. It varies |
| fact to its place in the great system of | | | | according to our previous knowledge and training. |
| knowledge. A logical classification of facts renews | | | | Dissimilar results follow even a journey through |
| the mind. It excites the intellect. It calls into play | | | | the wood. A savage sees in the visible footprint |
| the healthful mental powers, and gives them | | | | and the bent twig and turned leaf evidences of |
| exhilaration and stimulus to read the handwriting | | | | recent or remote passing of friend or foe. The |
| of God upon the rocks, to see God's handiwork in | | | | ornithologist observes the movements, form and |
| the firmament, to extract and utilize the secrets | | | | habits of the birds. The botanist notes the |
| of nature. | | | | likeness, differences and characteristics of trees |
| The logical classification of facts also makes our | | | | and plants. The poet hears golden-mouthed |
| mental possessions permanent. Disconnected | | | | orators all about him, and reads sermons in |
| facts will not stay in the mind. They will take their | | | | stones. The devout man feels the presence of |
| exit. After the mastery of facts, we should see | | | | God, in solitude his companion and friend. Each one |
| the relation, especially the resemblances between | | | | utilizes facts according to his mental and moral |
| them, and group them into classes. The mind | | | | make-up and draws there from a conclusion. |