Prof. A. Loisette wishes to call the attention of those who are now for
the first time becoming acquainted with his System of Memory Training,
that he was the first teacher of a Memory System to announce and to
insist that Memory is not a _separate faculty_ whose office it is to
carry the recollective burdens of the other faculties--but that Memory
is a Physiological and Psychological property of each mental act, and
that such act retains the traces and history of its own action, and that
there are as many memories as there are kinds of mental action, and
that, therefore, Memory is always concrete, although, for convenience
sake, we do speak of it in the abstract, and that consequently all
Memory improvement means _improvement of the Action_ or _Manner_ of
action of the Mental powers, and that what he imparts is the right way
to USE the Intellect and Attention--and that hence his System does make
and must make better observers, clearer and more consecutive thinkers,
and sounder reasoners as well as surer rememberers; that in short the
fundamental principle of his System is Learn by Thinking, and that his
achievements as a mind-trainer are completed when he has helped the
student of his System to acquire the Habit of Attention and the Habit of
Thinking on that to which he is attending on all occasions, which two
Habits combined constitute the Habit of Assimilation, and that when this
Habit of Assimilation is thus established in the pupil's mind, the
System as such is no longer consciously used.