Also that by it the Memory is never overcharged at the expense of Intellect, for the exertion of will in any way strengthens the mind.

To explain the immense power which this all implies, I observe: That previous to the invention of printing, it was usual for students to get their text-books by heart.

Thus in India, according to MAX MULLER, the entire text and glosses of PANINI'S Sanskrit grammar were handed down orally for 350 years before being committed to writing.
This work is about equal in size to the Bible.
There are Indian priests now living who can repeat accurately the whole poems of the _Mahabarata_ of 300,000 _slokas_ or lines.
That these incredible feats were the result of a system of memorizing similar to what I have explained.
That the _Guzlas_ or Slavonian minstrels of the present day have by heart with remarkable accuracy immensely long epic poems.

I have found the same among Algonkin Indians, whose sagas or mythic legends are interminable, and yet are committed word by word accurately.
I have heard in England of a lady ninety years of age whose memory was miraculous, and of which extraordinary instances are narrated by her friends.

She attributed it to the fact that when young she had been made to learn a verse from the Bible every day, and then constantly review it.