Christian herald and signs of our times . ed say that timeand space have no existence for the memory, ifshe did not in surmounting them awaken theidea of the one or the other. Obeying the be-hests of the will, memory retraces a scientificdoctrine as a whole and in detail, the nicest dis-tinctions of the most violent dispute, the seriesof systems of philosophy—all, in a word, thatscience or the most profound erudition has beenable to classify in the mind. We find everywhere the records of extra-ordinary memories, great numbers of whichcome down to us from antiquity. Mithridatesspoke twenty-two
Christian herald and signs of our times . ed say that timeand space have no existence for the memory, ifshe did not in surmounting them awaken theidea of the one or the other. Obeying the be-hests of the will, memory retraces a scientificdoctrine as a whole and in detail, the nicest dis-tinctions of the most violent dispute, the seriesof systems of philosophy—all, in a word, thatscience or the most profound erudition has beenable to classify in the mind. We find everywhere the records of extra-ordinary memories, great numbers of whichcome down to us from antiquity. Mithridatesspoke twenty-two languages or dialects accord-ing to Aulus Gellius, and forty according toPliny. Scipio, the Asiatic, knew most of his * From The Wonders of the Human Body. By A. LePileur. An illustrated work, describing in simple and familiarlanguage the anatomical and physiological construction of thehuman brdy. Pp. 256 ; price, $1. Published by Charles Scrih-ners Sons, 745 Broadway, New York. 524 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. Aug. The Magnificent Docks at the Terminus of ths Projected New Ship Canal at Manchester, England. legionaries by name ; Julius Ca;sar, Hortensius,Lucullus. Adrian, and many others prove that apowerful memory is not incompatible with asuperior mind. Pic de la Mirandole was a freshexample in the fifteenth century, as were alsoLeibnitz and Haller in the eighteenth. Thelast-mentioned cites a German, named Midler,who spoke twenty languages, and in our day wehave Cardinal Mezzofanti, who spoke nearlyfifty, exclusive of dialects, conversing with thepupils of the College of the Propaganda, whohad come from every quarter of the globe. It is related also that Scaliger learned Homerby heart in twenty-one days, and the otherGreek poets in four months ; and we are assuredthat Magliabecchi could dictate whole booksafter having read them once ; and if some ofthese examples of prodigious memory are notverified, they are at least rendered very probableby those whi
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