The Eclectic Magazine Of Foreign Literature Science And Art Vol 24 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Vol. 24: July to December, 1876 The first and most obvious power in which Macaulay excelled his neighbors was his portentous memory. He could assimilate printed pages, says his nephew, more quickly than others could glance over them. Whatever he read was stamped upon his mind instantaneously and permanently, and he read every thing. In the midst of severe labors in India, he read enough classical authors to stock the mind of an ordinary profes sor. At the same time he framed a criminal code and devoured masses of trashy novels. From the works of the ancient Fathers of the Church to English political pamphlets and to modern street ballads, no printed matter came amiss to his omnivorous appetite. All that he had read could be reproduced at a mo ment's notice. Every fool, he said, can repeat his Archbishops of Canterbury backwards; and he was as familiar with the Cambridge Calendar as the most de voted Protestant with the Bible. He could have re written Sir Charles Gran diron from memory if every copy had been lost. Now it might perhaps be plausibly maintained that the possession of such a memory is unfavorable to a high development of the reasoning pow ers. The case of Pascal, indeed, who is said never to have forgotten anything, shows that the two powers may co1876. Lord macaulay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.