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/Ibental Calisthenics
OR
PHYSIOLOGICAL • MEMORY
BY
Rev. 6. A. SCHRAM
he Natural Pome^s and Pf oeesses of Atten>
tion and ^eeolleetion Placed undei*
Intelligent and Peffeet
Control of the
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COPYRIGHT 1892.
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Mental Calisthenics
OR
PHYSIOLOGICAL MEMORY
I
THE METHOD APPLIES TO EVERYTHING THAT CAN POSSIBLY ENGAGE
ATTENTION.
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Rev. G. A. SCHRAM
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PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR
1892
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COPYRIGHT 1892.
(All rights reserved.)
PREFACE
be amiss.
I am fully aware of the boldness of my under-
taking to write upon a subject of so vast importance,
tively.
The Author.
MENTAL CALISTHENICS.
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critics.
blood.
4 MENTAL CALISTHENICS;
entirely different.
cannot hear.
smelt, etc.
of the same.
a horse.
object to sight.
of the same.
These, and not the words, are the real and ulti-
languages.
produce mind-wandering.
I. Analysis of Recollection.
afterwards in Recollection.
2\nalgsi5 of 7^ ec ollection.
1. What is a Kecollection ?
when needed.
The old philosophers treated the subject much in
Nowhere.
What is an idea or thought? Surely it has no
mind in Recollection.
be apparent, viz:
OR PHYSIOLOGICAL MEMORY. 13
is impossible.
18 MENTAL CALISTHENICS;
stanza,
every recollection.
recollection.
chanism concerned.
TJecollecttoe ^gntfyesis.
generally.
I. A condition of impression.
kinds of sense-objects.
1. Those that are in nature, correlated to the
-4 MENTAL CALISTHENICS:
recollection.
perceives.
OR PHYSIOLOGICAL MEMORY. 25
Synthetic.
advances.
ament, and the more they know, the more likely this
type.
objects.
But who has not found that the mind has often
been 8 ide- tracked, and that attention has broken
down? e. g., in reading a book attention has been
diverted by a suggestion, and although one may have
gone on reading mechanically, nothing is remem-
bered of the page.
without a break.
be voluntarily perceived.
There is a natural pause after each new percep-
tion gained (as in breathing), and this is the point
tion.
or listening.
memory.
Again, an illiterate person, other things being
the latter.
of N.
of July.
OR PHYSIOLOGICAL MEMORY. 39
their thought.
40 MENTAL CALISTHENICS:
Suppose that they first used gestures to express
pleasure, fear, want, etc., or to tell what they had
seen, heard, or felt, somewhat as the deaf-mutes
do.
would be made.
Subsequently certain sounds or combinations of
of mental vision.
120.)
they represent.
OK PHYSIOLOGICAL MEMORY. 45
sense.
ceived.
CHAPTER IV.
Reciprocal Prebication.
behavior.
another, so to say.
or the war.
vision, and you find that each object has the effect of
4
50 MENTAL CALISTHENICS;
or otherwise.
heard the terms "lay your hat down" and "Jay the
physical basis.
rocal-Predication applies.
senses).
or place.
other.
OK PHYSIOLOGICAL MEMORY. 53
of attention.
OR PHYSIOLOGICAL MEMORY. 57
one another.
2. Direction in space.
any other word in. the list, and you will recite every
and 2.
cises.
elsewhere.
Gxercises.
himself.
you know it: if not, note the fact. Then take the
next in order —notice its direction from and relation
first.
use it.
order.
incorrect.
following exercise:
Garden ; on shore.
Mansion ; in garden.
whose deck you saw it. What after it? Shore, for,
one reading.
Make occasional lists for yourself, as a pastime,
and speak it. Now, fix the mental vision upon the
of the object.
foreign words.
definitions
then the one next it, then take these two together,
72 MENTAL CALISTHENICS;
backward.
tainty.
OR PHYSIOLOGICAL MEMORY. 73
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Make occasional exercises for yourself or get
with ease.
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schemes.
sight.
poses.
raneous history.
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^emoranba, etc.
effectiveness.
it, but that they will become more learned with it.
following instructions.
about.
by the words.
90 MENTAL CALISTHENICS;
ing exercises.
Barbara Frietchie.
(J. G. Whittiee.)
ascent and see the spires, and read " The clustering
the hills back of spires, now give the words " Green"
etc. Now the Thought-Object next to the hills.
to last.
92 MENTAL CALISTHENICS;
contrast throughout.
Cleon and I.
By Chas. McKay.
State for state, with all attendants, who would change ? Not I.
Memory Bells.
" Memory Bells are ringing — ringing
Tn the distance far away;
Do you hear them singing — singing ?
vertebra."
the "braces."
foregoing pages.
CHAPTER X.
Conclusion.
original productions.
using my method.
strength.
specially to students.
Study.
To Leaen a Text-Book.
Read according to the foregoing instructions, and
as you proceed reduce it to the briefest possible out-
Examination.
Many of the brightest students fail in examina-
selves.
these pages.
activity.
FACE-ALPHABET
CERTAINLY REMEMBER
BY
Rev. G. A. SCHRAM.
COFYRIG-HT 1892.
(Ail rights reoervod. )
face $Upfyabet.
less prolonged.
Face Alphabet.
COPYBIGHT 1889.
both is good.
results.
others in recollection.
by different names.
both, as the case may be, will cling to you unless you
resolve to overcome it by using the Face Alphabet.
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