. Secrets of mental supremacy . llows. All of them are now men ofnotably fine memory. The same method may be varied inother ways. For instance, letters maybe substituted for the figures or wordsmay be arranged in groups, say twelvein groups of three each, the exercisebeing to remember not only the wordbut its position in relation to the otherwords. So exercises for developing thepower of memory can be multipliedindefinitely. Those given above, how-ever, are more than sufficient, if prop-erly practiced. 69 SECRETS OF Union accomplishes all things.—Sophocles. / have only to take up this or that
. Secrets of mental supremacy . llows. All of them are now men ofnotably fine memory. The same method may be varied inother ways. For instance, letters maybe substituted for the figures or wordsmay be arranged in groups, say twelvein groups of three each, the exercisebeing to remember not only the wordbut its position in relation to the otherwords. So exercises for developing thepower of memory can be multipliedindefinitely. Those given above, how-ever, are more than sufficient, if prop-erly practiced. 69 SECRETS OF Union accomplishes all things.—Sophocles. / have only to take up this or that toflood my soul with memories.— The whole art of mental training isbased upon the fact that any action atfirst executed with conscious effort be-comes, in time, sub-conscious and ha-bitual.—Thompson Jay Hudson. Within the secret chambers of the brain,The thoughts lie linked by many a mystic but one, and lo, what legions rise!Each stamps its image as the other dies. —COWPER. GO MENTAL SUPREMACY. ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS. F all the operations ofthe mind the one mostdirectly conducive tomental readiness is thepower of associating orgrouping ideas. The manor woman in whom the power of asso-ciation is well developed has a mindwhich may be likened to a vast skeinof threads. Each thread represents anidea. And of these thread-ideas allthose which are at all related aregrouped together like so many threadstied in a knot; so that if you touch oneof the thread-ideas you are instantlyin communication with all of thatgroup. When ideas are grouped or associ-ated in this orderly manner anythought coming into the mind will in- 61 SECRETS OF stantly suggest a large number ofrelated thoughts. This means an ac-tive, an efficient, frequently a brilliantmind. Now let us understand at once thatwhat is commonly called ^^education^—that is, a mere knowledge of facts-no matter how extensive it may be,does not necessarily confer the powerof associating or grouping ideas
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