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Excerpt from How to Teach and Study United States History: By the Brace System Concepts and reasons are formed by the power of the mind to judge or discriminate between thoughts, conclusions and ideas. The power of association is of most use to the memory; without this the mind is unable to associate ideas, thoughts, conclusions, chronology, places, etc. The mind may be stored with facts, figures and results, but without association it cannot recall much of value. History repeats itself only as the lives and actions of men repeat themselves; the individual thinks in the line of some person on the stage of action in the past, and acts accordingly. A nation does the same thing, like results follow, and we say history repeats itself. It is but an event emanating from the same cause. Like causes produce like results. The life of the individual is largely typical of the life of a nation; they are both moved by pulsating thought; men reason upon common interests, just as the individual does in his life work, until some common interest moves the masses, when an event must follow as the sequence of thought. A country and its resources pave the way for the history of a people. The history of the South American peoples must necessarily be very different from that of the major part of North America; the products are of widely different varieties, and affect the world of civilization in a different degree. The history of South America will not be repeated in North America. Correct thinking is produced by getting correct ideas of the subject in hand, and in their proper order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.