Ideatypics; or, an art of memory / [William Tanner Imeson].

  • Imeson, W. T. (William Tanner)
Date:
1844
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Credit: Ideatypics; or, an art of memory / [William Tanner Imeson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    posed the more or less active faculties of each to be drawn, as represented by the lines from c to the building. You may draw the lines to any other letter, and pursue the same mode of repre- sentation, with reference to form, Sec. The Color, Form, &c., of this building, may be a medium through which much information may be imparted with certainty; because it brings the same faculty in each first into play, and we are not involved in the absurdity of expecting a pupil to think well about, or understand that which he has had but little tendency to observe, either from little exer- cise, or small powers of observation. Our wTay, then, of proceeding with a pupil is manifest: we must place him in a way to receive the simple ideas that are requisite. The business of the Edu- cator is, to furnish a type, involving the elements of his own ideal abstractions, or associated forms, or notions, that he may wish to communicate. It must be a type, almost or really tangible—-the re- presentation of his own compound idea; under cover of which, he shall best communicate know- ledge, and fix it in the memory of another. All the powers will be employed under such an ar- rangement, and there will be a passing from that which is indefinite and indeterminate, and open at every point to error, to that which is definite and determinate, and certainly known. It will occur