A System of Universal Geography: On the Principles of Comparison and Classification (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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With regard to durability of impression, we'discard that method of ar rangement generally found in the description of countries, where many dis unclead dissimilar subjects are treated of in quick succession because, from the want of any associating principle, information received in this way can not be well remembered. We admit little which may not be traced to one of these two laws of intellect - htat, that the objects of sight more readily become the subjects of conception and memory, than those of the other sen Eel; and secondly, that the best of all methods to abridge the labour of the mind, and to enable the memory to lay up the most in the smallest com. Put, is to class particulars under general heads.

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