As "Field" belongs to both words, it is a case of perfect In. by S. and s. Other cases: "Regiment, Compliment;" "Sell, Selfish;" "Miniature, Mint," &c. Now let the pupil read over very thoughtfully the ten words just examined, and _recall_ the _relation_ which we found to exist between every pair of them. Building. Dwelling. House. Parlor. Partridge. Feathers. Light. Lighterman. Lord Mansfield. Fieldhand. Having finished the reading, let the pupil close the lesson, or put it out of sight and endeavour to recall the ten words from Building to Fieldhand from memory. He will find no difficulty in doing so. He learned the series by heart without any suspicion that he was committing it to memory. Now let him realise how he did this. It was because he made use of the cementing Laws of the Memory. He sought out and found the relations between the words. By _thinking_ of those relations, he _exercised_ his intellect on those words in a double way--the _meaning_ and the _sound_ of the words were considered and then the _similarities_ of meaning and of sound were noticed. A vivid _First Impression_ was thus received from the words themselves and from the relations between them and an easy and certain recall thereby assured. Now _recall_ the series in an inverse order, beginning with "Fieldhand," and going back to "Building." You do it easily, because each word was cemented to its predecessor and its successor, and hence it makes no difference whether you go forward or backward. When, however, you learn by _rote_ you know the task as you learned it, and not in the reverse way. Before proceeding, repeat the ten words from memory, from "Building" to "Fieldhand," and the reverse way, at least five times; each time, if possible, more rapidly than before. These repetitions are not to _learn_ the series; for this has been done already, but it is to consolidate the effect of learning it in the right way. SECOND LAW OF MEMORY. =Fieldhand.= } Ex. =Millionnaire.= } A fieldhand is a labourer who lives by the sweat of his brow, and eats not what he does not earn. A Millionnaire is at the opposite pole, and can have a superabundance of all things. It is a case of opposition. _Where two ideas pertain to one and the same idea, but occupy opposite relations in regard to it, it is a case of Exclusion._ The means of subsistence is the common idea and Fieldhand and Millionnaire occupy opposite positions in respect to that idea. Other examples: "Upper, Under;" "Above, Beneath;" "Before, After;" "Entrance, Exit;" "Appear, Vanish;" "Cheap, Dear;" "Empty, Full;" "Col. Ingersoll, Talmage;" "Washington, Arnold;" "Minnehaha, Minneboohoo." =Millionnaire.= } Ex. =Pauper.= }