Excerpt from Historical Epochs, With System of Mnemonics: To Facilitate the Study of Chronology, History, and Biography This little treatise on artificial memory does not profess to present a new idea to the student, since the Arundelian Marbles inform us that the science of Mnemonics was taught in the years 477 B.C., by Simonides the Younger. In A.D. 1730 Dr. Grey published a treatise on this subject, called "Memoria Technica," and another system, entitles New Art of Memory. was announced in Germany in the year 1806. The question of introducing Mnemonics into the public schools was at one time discussed with some earnestness, but the subject, not being handled in a practical manner, was allowed to collapse. "The eye of history," as chronology has been aptly called is required to show us the effects produced in one country by the contemporaneous events occurring in other parts of the world, and to trace the march of progress, as indicated by wedge and arrow-head, or by characters traced with the stylus, and finally set in types to be reproduced a thousandfold. The importance of dates being an acknowledged fact, students, it is hoped, will readily avail themselves of a system whereby an ordinary memory may easily store up an array of figures that would be appalling if presented in their usual cut-and-dried form and the method here laid down, if fairly tested, will make the subject of chronology one of the most interesting studies in the school course. 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.