Assimilative Memory Part 32

=16 and 17--Ex.=--The death of a mult.i.tude of soldiers and a birth in the highest family of the realm.

=17 and 18--Ex. and In.=--A birth and a death gives Ex. A _royal_ birth with all the advantages it brings, and the advantage of the inheritance of great fortunes, makes a clear case of In.

=18 and 19--Ex. and In.=--Similar relations to those spoken of in the last paragraph.

=19 and 20--Ex.=--To the taxpayer the endowment of the Duke of Edinburgh might seem to be a burden imposed--and the abolition of imprisonment for debt below 20, would be looked upon as a burden removed. Here we have Ex.

As before suggested, let the pupil recite the foregoing ten events forwards and the reverse way several times from memory. And then let him similarly recite the entire twenty events.

=20 and 21--In.=--Favoring poor people--debtors and poor students--characterises both events.

=21 and 22--In.=--This college among other things prosecuted the study of Philosophy--"the complete unification of knowledge"--Faraday _unified_ three elements.

=22 and 23--In.=--Light, heat and electricity arise from latency to manifestation--a physical birth--here, too, is the birth of an organism.

=23 and 24--In.=--Beginning of two careers--one of an individual and the other of a body of persons.

=24 and 25--Ex.=--Object and aims different--one was a promotion of science--new science--highest science--the other was reverence for old literature--greatest of all literatures.

=25 and 26--Ex.=--Liberal outlay of money in art circles--great scarcity in business.

=26 and 27--Ex.=--Anguish and suffering unallayed--pain neutralized.

=27 and 28--Ex.=--Suppression of individual feeling--society's outburst.

=28 and 29--In.=--Explosion of seething elements--a new nation--royal birth.

=29 and 30--In. and Ex.=--Nation protects Royal child--a foreigner seeks same protection.

=30 and 31--In. and Ex.=--Treaty between State and individual--treaty between States.

=31 and 32--Ex.=--Ca.n.a.l transportation comparatively safe--horseback riding liable to accidents.

=32 and 33--In.=--Farewell to life--farewell to stage.

=33 and 34--Ex.=--Close of one kind of exhibition and opening of another.

=34 and 35--Ex.=--Peaceful industries triumph--usurpation by intrigue and blood.

=35 and 36--Ex. and In.=--Beginning of one career and close of another--a trampler on laws; a respecter of them.

=36 and 37--Ex.=--Great General's death; royal birth.

=37 and 38--Ex.=--Life and choleraic deaths feared.

=38 and 39--In.=--Rebuke of religious zeal--dismissal for opinion's sake.

=39 and 40--In.=--A cleric dismissed and a war declared--"Intolerance"

in both cases.

=40 and 41--In.=--Two declarations of war.

=41 and 42--Ex.=--Ravages of war contrasted with intellectual triumphs of peace--brute force and advanced thinking.

=42 and 43--Con.=--Philosophy and peace--high thinking and the conditions on which it can be carried on--co-existence.

=43 and 44--Con.=--Peace and its celebrations, cause and effect.

=44 and 45--In.=--General rejoicing and rejoicing in royal family.

=45 and 46--Ex.=--Life and b.l.o.o.d.y deaths.

=46 and 47--Ex.=--Forcible seizure and legal separation, capture and discharge.

=47 and 48--Ex.=--Marriage failures and honoring Newton's successes.

=48 and 49--Ex. and In.=--Honoring old science--publis.h.i.+ng new science.

=49 and 50--Ex.=--Beginning of scientific reputation--close of literary life.

=50 and 51--In. and Ex.=--Two deaths make In.--and one from natural causes and the other from violence, we have Ex.

=51 and 52--Ex.=--Violence externally applied kills the boy--but s.h.i.+ps s.h.i.+elded from violence by its ironclad covering. It is Ex.

=52 and 53--In. and Con.=--Interest in war and befriending a belligerent, coexistence of war improvement, and favouring a warlike people.

=53 and 54--Ex.=--Coming into existence (recognition) and death of a high personage.

=54 and 55--Con. and Ex.=--Father and son is Con.--death and marriage as the condition of life.

=55 and 56--In.=--Marriage festivities and celebration of Shakespeare's birth--both rejoicings.

=56 and 57--In. and Ex.=--Both tercentenaries, and one reckons from birth and the other from death.

=57 and 58--In. and Ex.=--Tercentenary ceremonies, and dedication of a statue to Sir William Jenner--one tried to save souls, the other to save life.

=58 and 59--In.=--A statue and a medal--honour in both cases.

=59 and 60--In.=--One tried to save life, the other alleviated its sufferings.

=60 and 61--In.=--Gifts to the poor in a lump--buying telegraph to cheapen cost of messages to the great ma.s.s of community.

=61 and 62--In.=--Extension of telegraphs, ultimately to the benefit of all--extension of medical education to women.

=62 and 63--In.=--Rights of women and of the poor--beneficence to poor and charity to women.

=63 and 64--Con.=--Common prisons abound in dust and germs--these latter are propagators of disease.