Culture of the Memory.

Having treated so fully the cultivation of the intellect and will, we can briefly dispose of that of the memory and imagination, for it is really included in what has gone before.

The memory is the vast storehouse of the mind, in which the intellect treasures up all the precious truths it has acquired, that they may be forthcoming when needed. It follows that nothing should be deposited there but what is true and good.

Do these worldly newspapers, which arrogate to themselves the right of keeping the entire community in order, deposit there anything which is not true or is not good? Do they recount robbery, oppression, persecution, with tacit—and even with open—approbation, when we Catholics are the victims? Maxima debetur pueris reverentia.

Have they for the young that reverence which even a pagan held to be due, or do they thrust into their tender minds the most revolting descriptions of vice, from the foul reek of which the memory can hardly ever be thoroughly purified?