Birth of Charles Darwin { S}{ p}ecies (18)09
---- William Ewart Gladstone { S}{ p}ellbinder (18)09
---- Alfred Tennyson, { P}oet (180)9 or (0) { S}elected (9) { P}oet or { S}omers{ b}y (09)
---- Felix Mendelssohn-{ B}artholdy (180)9 or { P}recocious (180)9, or (0) { S}t. (9) { P}aul
---- Elizabeth { B}arret Browning (180)9, or { S}u{ b}jective (18)09
1. Do all pupils succeed in finding analytic date or number words without any previous training in In., Ex., or Con.? 2. What proportion succeeded? 3. Does this not confirm the rule? 4. Do these failures ever become successes? 5. How? 6. What must be carefully studied hereafter? 7. After studying my formulas, what should the pupil do? 8. What will be the result, if the pupil acts on my advice? 9. In what ways may the different processes for dealing with dates and numbers be classified?
Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706, and died in 1790. (0) "{ S}agacious (6) { ch}ild" would analytically fix his birth, as he was known as a precocious boy: or the single word (06) { S}a{ g}e. As he was a great worker all his life, (90) "{ B}u{ s}y," or "(9) { B}enjamin (0) { C}eased" would significantly express his death-date.
(3) _Cases where the initial consonants of a short sentence analytically express the date._
The analytic number words, phrases, and sentences which one retains most easily are those which he has made himself. Formulas prepared by others are perfectly retained, however, if they are thoroughly _assimilated_.
_The analytic word or phrase is what one most usually finds and uses._ Sentences will sometimes be useful because they may contain the name of the event, and they sometimes offer a wider range for selection of the needed consonants; but care must be taken to avoid ambiguity. To indicate the birth of Lincoln, we might use this formula: (1) { D}awn (8) o{ f} (0) A{ s}sassinated (9) { P}resident, but as Garfield was also assassinated, the formula in its _meaning_ would equally apply to the latter. If, however, we know that Garfield was born in 1831, the ambiguity would be removed. (1) { D}awn (8) o{ f} (0) A{ s}sassinated (9) A{ b}raham could apply only to Lincoln. (1) { D}awn (8) o{ f} (0) { S}lavery's (9) { P}resident would be applicable to the career of Buchanan, Pierce and Fillmore, but it would express the birth-date only of Lincoln, while it would be wholly inapplicable to his career. (1) { D}awn (8) o{ f} (0) { S}lavery's (9) { P}unisher would exclusively apply to Lincoln's life and birth-date.