Have you a strong will?; or, How to develope [sic] will-power, or any other faculty or attribute of the mind, and render it habitual by the easy process of self-hypnotism - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1899 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. That There Ake Only Two Possible Methods Of Developing Memory, The Associative And The Direct, By Means Op Will. The Artes Memorandi OF OLD Time. The Process Of Developing Memory Hypnotically. Illustrations Of Memory. The System In EducaTion. Twaa wisely said by Plato, when he called Memory "the mother of the Intellect," For knowledge is to wisdom what his realm Is to a monarch--that o'er which he rules; And he who hath the Will can ever win Such empire to himself--Will can do all. There is nothing in which the might of the Will can be so clearly set forth as in the making of memory. By means of it, as is fully proved by millions of examples, man can render his power of recollection almost infinite. And lest the reader may think that I here exaggerate, I distinctly assert that I never knew a man of science, familiar with certain facts which I shall repeat, who ever denied its literal truth. As I have already stated, there are two methods, and only two, by means of which we can retain images, facts or ideas. One of these is that which in manv varied forms, which are all the same in fact, is described in the old Artes Memorandi, or Arts of Memory. There are several hundreds of these, and to the present day there are professors who give instructions according to systems of the same kind. These are all extremely plausible, being based on Association of ideas, and in most One of the XVI Century, in my possessiony and which is indeed raris»ime professes to teach how to remember all things by the hand alone, that is to say by the digits, joints, and lines of the palm. Which may remind some readers how, when schoolboys, they wrote divers tasks on the same, which they ought to have inscribed on the tablets of memory. For which reason when detected...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217586589
- ISBN 13 9780217586580
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages38
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