[10]
And there can be no doubt that
concentration of mind is of the utmost importance in
this connexion; it is, in fact, like the eyesight, which
turns to, and not away from, the objects which it
contemplates. Thus it results that after writing
for several days with a view to acquiring by heart
what we have written, we find that our mental effort
has of itself imprinted it on our memory.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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