the task of laborious and tedious long years, they will achieve in as many easy and cheerful months.
Just as by a few simple experiments we are enabled to appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of a machinery, through which a given mechanical power is applied to overcome resistances; so we will see, that by a few intellectual experiments, we may judge of the merits of the phrenotypic contrivances through which the memory operates, in the process of printing upon the brain.
FIRST EXPERIMENT.
All present are invited to write upon slips of paper any English words; for instance, pen, watch, horse, noisy, &c. These slips are handed over to any individual, from the audience, by whom they are read, as they reach him from all corners of the assembly; the audience write these words down in the same order, which will form, suppose, the following list:
| Rope, |
| Box, |
| Head, |
| Mirror, |
| Strong, |
| Leg, |
| Wet, |
| Door, |
| Angle, |
| Beam, |
| Book, |
| Cupboard, |
| Polygon, |
| Clock, |
| Crevice, |
| Love, |
