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Rh ticular fact will be the central thought. Similar systems of analysis have been published and sold by various teachers, at high prices—and many men have considered that the results justified the expenditure. So do not pass it by lightly.

The more other facts that you manage to associate with any one fact, the more pegs will you have to hang your facts upon—the more “loose ends” will you have whereby to pull that fact into the field of consciousness—the more cross indexes will you have whereby you may “run down” the fact when you need it. The more associations you attach to a fact, the more “meaning” does that fact have for you, and the more interest will be created regarding it in your mind. Moreover, by so doing, you make very probable the “automatic” or involuntary recollection of that fact when you are thinking of some of its associated subjects; that is, it will come into your mind naturally in connection with something else—in a “that reminds me” fashion. And the oftener that you are involuntarily “reminded” of it, the clearer and deeper does its impression become on the