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Excerpt from Phreno-Mnemotechny, or the Art of Memory: The Series of Lectures, Explanatory of the Principles of the System, Delivered in New York and Philadelphia, in the Beginning of 1844Yes, happy is he, who, in addition to a cultivated understanding, possesses an extensive power of retention and recollection.* He has always within himself a source of entertainment to which no other treasure is to be compared, at least in the eye of the sage. He can either be usethl in society, or employed in retirement. It the pursuit of knowledge and truth is the favorite theme of his mind and studies, always contented with his fate, he can, more deliberately than any other mortal, free himself in solitude from the and dreams of ambition, the fascinations of vain glory, the turmoils of social troubles, and the cold injustice and disdains of the world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.