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78 trate.” And as Kay says: “The similars may be widely apart in space or in time, but they are brought together and associated through their resemblance to each other. Thus, a circumstance of to-day may recall circumstances of a similar nature that occurred perhaps at very different times, and they will become associated together in the mind, so that afterwards the presence of one will tend to recall the others.” Abercrombie says of this phase of association: “The habit of correct association—that is, connecting facts in the mind according to their true relations, and to the manner in which they tend to illustrate each other, is one of the principle means of improving the memory, particularly that kind of memory which is an essential quality of a cultivated mind—namely, that which is founded not upon incidental connections, but on true and important relations.”

As Beattie says: “The more relations or likenesses that we find or can establish between objects, the more easily will the view of one lead us to recollect the rest.” And as Kay says: “In order to fix a thing in the