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The Trained Memory - Being the Fourth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the - Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and - Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
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You have learned of the sense-perceptive and judicial processes by which
your mind acquires its knowledge of the outside world. You come now to a
study of the phenomenon of memory, the instrument by which your mind
retains and makes use of its knowledge, the agency that has power to
resurrect the buried past or power to enfold us in a Paradise of dreams
more perfect than reality.

In the broadest sense, memory is the faculty of the mind by which we
(1) _retain_, (2) _recall_, (3) _picture to the mind's eye_, and (4)
_recognize_ past experiences.

Memory involves, therefore, four elements, _Retention_, _Recall_,
_Imagination_ and _Recognition_.

THE MENTAL TREASURE VAULT AND ITS LOST COMBINATION

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CHAPTER II

THE MENTAL TREASURE VAULT AND ITS LOST COMBINATION

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