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64 matters of knowledge, then they are elevated out of his memory and into the rationality as useful things of life. "Twice two is four" is a very queer and stupid piece of information as it falls first upon the ears of the youthful mind. But let him go to the shop and find out that the two sticks of candy he has bought at two cents apiece make four cents that he has to pay the shopkeeper, and quite a new light breaks in on his mind as to the meaning and value of that, to him, most mystic phrase. And as he grows up and enters into the business of life, and sees the wonderful uses of arithmetic in all their every day aspects and gets, almost without reflection, to see the reasons of its rules and combinations, arithmetic rises out of the memory into the understanding.

And in learning music, we are first taught, and we store up in the memory, all knowledges with regard to musical facts, terms and tones. We learn about the lines and spaces, the notes and staves, the tones and semi-tones, and a hundred other things, as dry as dry can be to the young mind, and they are all stored away in the memory. But when these are brought into practical application, and their uses are clearly seen, and it is realized so that nothing can be plainer, that there can be no making of music without these as the necessary elements; and when we sing beautiful songs and play delightful