All that the student requires is one analytic word. I have gone through the varieties of Inclusion, through Exclusion, and Concurrence, merely to show how to find analytic words and not because more than one word was necessary.
According to the census report of 1890, the number of square miles of land in the State of New York is 47,620, or (4) York’s (7) Acres (6) Surely (2) Not (0) Submerged; the number of square miles of land and water in it is 49,170, or (4) York’s (9) Plains (1) With (7) Accompanying (0) Sealets.
NUMBER OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS.
We will try another case: You want to remember the number of plays that Shakespeare wrote. You know it is less than 50; but you wish to remember the exact number—it was 37. You experiment; you try the varieties of Inclusion, and among the rest you try Whole and Part; you find in the first two consonants of the name Macbeth the figures 37; but if you did not notice that Macbeth afforded you the means of always remembering that the Shakespeare Plays numbered 37, you would try Exclusion perhaps. If you look upon the attempt to ascribe the authorship of the Shakespeare Plays to Bacon as a mockery you would find in the first two consonants of that word the figures 37 through the operation of Exclusion; and if you recollect that the character of Shylock was played with great success at Old Drury, February 17, 1741, by Charles Maclin, you would find in the first two consonants of his name the figures 37 through Concurrence.
DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON.
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769. As a boy he was finely formed. “Shapely” (69) gives his birth-date by In. by A. and C. He evinced the opposite of the temper usually ascribed to the “Shepherd-boy” (69)—a birth-date by Ex. “Chaplet”—a wreath or garland signed for by him in his ambitious hopes—expresses his birth-date by Con. His death occurred in 1821. “End” (21) or “Undone” (21) expresses his death-date by synonymous Inclusion. “Nativity” (21) indicates it by Ex. Since he died from cancer in the stomach, he could retain very little food. “Indigestion” (21) makes his death-date by Con.
Wellington’s birth, in 1769, may be expressed by “Sheep-faced” (69), a term his own mother applied to him when a boy. In his childhood, he was blue-eyed, hawk-nosed, slender, and ungainly, “Chubby” (69), by Ex., expresses his birth-date. A more vivid concurrence can scarcely be imagined, since he and Bonaparte were both born in the same year, 1769.
Wellington died in 1852 at Wilmer Castle. “Wilmer” expresses the date of his death by only one year too many. But a means of remembrance that requires readjustment or modification can seldom be relied upon, except by those who are practised in Higher Analysis. He was 83 years old when he died. “Lantern-jawed” (52) expresses his death-date by In., by A. and C. No man was ever more honored after his death than Wellington. “Alienated” (52) expresses his death-date by Ex. A sudden illness carried him off. Hence “Illness” (52) is a fact connected with his death by Con.
These elaborate illustrations must indicate to any student how to apply the laws of In., Ex., and Con., so as to find analytic date and number words. Cases of Ex. give good practice, but are rarely ever necessary.