Excerpt from The Economy and Training of Memory Person, but that this vigour is not so great for some things as for others is a matter of popular knowledge. It changes with the needs, habits, interests of the individual, and with a hundred other circumstances. Besides, to talk of a native faculty of memory suggests that we have accounted for all that might hinder or help memory, and have sifted out the essence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.