Show THE POWERS OF or MEMORY asure hour granting good health and averse average faculty it U ought to bo ile felt ai disgrace ful fill to pay VI have abad i bid memory I 1 ai to auy 1 havo have a bad character diar acter art ami in fact the tao two statements are almost anti inti interchangeable for or whit what would a man in bo be without ciny any memory at nil all coulie lie be a truo true frie tid could lie he be i it worthy foe fee to evil gr gratitude altitude be T twile os sible to hini him I 1 II 11 how 0 w con could I 1 d lie forecast the future I 1 ilow how could lie judge the tile tent I 1 could loo love bo be worth much la in a cape a where 0 it mait fol out out eat of I 1 bifi 7 we sea beoo at alico 04 that what v lilt ed ait bo be ins ilia other mental powers zas z as invention ant and go so forth such a man would bo be a moral idiot and such state of moral idiocy idio in is anoro or less approached uy every s fiade of that abad bad memoir memory which is often so glibly urged as an ample excuse by f hose 1 would bo very eb slow lo 10 admit an any oilier other shade of ini intellectual tel inferiority we 0 o can all recollect aliat eliat in abich wo we tat take a ii real interest some philosophers forget dinner time many schoolboy schoolboys a forget class hours but rat the philosopher doe does not nt forget his ilia theory nor the schoolboy his cricket score the plea aa of bad memory ine might therefore be generally exchanged for one of w ft ant of joal yeal attention or OK lively in interest but but this would be so often too I 1 frank ran k an admission of ones moral status it seems so easy to say to ones mother 11 L forgot your 5 our birthday tint that convey veys s only an impression of pardonable infirmity it would in be harder to say 1 I did not trouble myself about it something elo else el o was more important tant to my mind it seems quite polite to eay to d friend who his has dropped out of our visiting or corresponding lists 1 I lost eight of you ou because I 1 had forgotten your new address ad iress cut but what would bo be it if wo we owned 1 I did not caro 0 here where you lived so how could I 1 re member yet if instead of the self excusing explanation these truths were uttered at least to ones self they might prove a valuable val self revelation tending lending to abasement and amendment nobody can a good memory who blocs not cultivate a present mind a ready read and sym B m pathetic attention and interest Inter cast dinall in all that is is going on around linn him A mere more dreamer over over past or future will boon soon have rao no past ri norbu r future ture worth dream ing over tor for the lie present the ever fleeting present ft inch which slips through hurvery our very grasp as we lay leold on it is athe only material of N vv well pasts and Ft iture are made let us try to take an interest in in everything ever thing going on around us for wo we know not when A hen or how some object now a becomingly gly remote I 1 may enter into our real lives it is is wonderful what can be done in this way by a lively mind which grasps every jact fact that comes within ita ken and blips slips it into tile proper pigeonhole pigeon hole of a well ordered memory to wait there till wanted one can imagine how serviceable Bervice abia such a it trained demort inenio rf must be to the student of human nature or to anybody able and anxious to exercise a wide w ide and useful influence on the almaira of men there is is something stimulating and uphold ingin the very idea of it it seems like a leaf from the record ing angels book and helps us as does all high human faculty towards realizing that divna mind in choso whoso hoso memory all our members are written how different is is lie the influence of such a LL inen mentory fory from that of the vulgar mob which eager to devour scandals true or false yet et does not retain facts which should guide guido its judgment or its theio is indeed a very verano no table trace trat of original ein fin in our memorie memories 3 which must often arike even ev en tile kast least observant ant A senseless rhyme a foolish pun pan some quaint play of language which reduces the sublime to the tile ridiculous will beize upon the memory which lets worthier 90 by or memory ag again gain wll ill persistently call up the tile dark bide side of every thing tiling sometimes making one hate himself who ho doca does not know those dismal das days whereon all ones ancient woes aree a and P 4 the petty deprivations of childhood the blinks of youth auth the wrongs and crosses of mature life all march in in procession across the tile soul 7 still sadder i hours vv Ns hen lien dear vanished faces once more turn upon us the patriotic patti otic or as to rAshed deves eyes which mutely wi while we give gave way to unjust fetu lenco lence or fretful dissatisfaction and und of which novy thrill I 1 us with a remorseful Sl earning io u hat that all our love seems swampy swamped in these remembered outbursts of ill hewl and we cannot recall the loving words vo ito so often spoke nor thereal oroal the tb real devotion of our hearts in in which at anytime any time wo would have cheerfully died for our it darlings ar lings though it failed to malo make us alaya live peacefully and cheerily for them |