Page:Memory; how to develop, train, and use it - Atkinson - 1919.djvu/53

Rh student may perform for the amusement of his friends. Instead, there is only the desire to aid in developing the power to receive impressions, to register them upon the memory, and readily to reproduce them at will, naturally and easily. The lines of natural mental action will be followed throughout. The idea of this work is not to teach how one may perform “feats” of memory; but, instead, to instruct in the intelligent and practical use of the memory in the affairs of every-day life and work.