following day, after condemning several friends to death, he sent
invitations to them to come and dine with him. And again, there are
people who have, as it were, two memories, one good, the other bad, as
was the case with CALVISIUS SABRINUS, who could recall anything in
literature, but never remembered the names of his own servants, or
even his friends. But he got over the difficulty by naming his nine
attendants after the nine Muses, while he called his intimates Homer,
Hesiod, and so on. This scholar would truly seem to have drunk of the
two fountains sacred to Trophonius, by the river Orchomenus in
Boeotia, one of which bestowed memory and the other oblivion. And like
unto them is the power of the Will, aided by Forethought and
Suggestion, for while it properly directs and aids us to remember what
we will, it _per contra_ also helps us to forget.



CHAPTER VIII.

THE CONSTRUCTIVE FACULTIES.

"He who hath learned a single art,
Can thrive, I ween, in any part."
--_German Proverb_.

"He would have taught you how you might employ
Yourself; and many did to him repair,
And, certes, not in vain; he had inventions rare."
--WORDSWORTH.

When I had, after many years of study and research in England and on