To those who seek to understand Perfect Sight,

I felt it would be interesting to google around for anything relating
to Lord Macaulay's prodigious talents as described by Dr.Bates -
especially those on the subject of his phenomenal and inspiring
ability of seemingly unparalleled memory, with the hope that this
might allow me to understand more thoroughly just 'what makes him
tick' (as HRG puts it to Sylar from Heroes) and throw some light on
the method by which he remembers inane details, such as the location
of a misspelled word in a book which he had read many years earlier,
with such remarkable accuracy.

Was it his imaginative and associative abilities that allowed him to
perform these feats? What kind of technique did he use to acquire such
gifts of power?

So this morning I googled as much as I could within the short space of
time before I would have to get off to work. The search terms used
were 'Macaulay, memory'. The results were to be truthful quite boring,
and mostly irrelevant descriptions of his literary works, life
history, political history and so forth in which I have little
interest. However, I had the fortune of stumbling across one very
intriguing article from 1876, published in the New York Times.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9505E7D9143FE63BBC4F53DFB
366838D669FDE&oref=slogin

The language used is slightly difficult and confusing at times, but
reading it in conjunction to the article by Dr. Bates which I have
posted below this thread may allow readers make more sense of it so if
you haven't already, you would be better to read the article 'Lord
Macaulay' from the Better Eyesight Magazine first and following with
this.

Initially by default the text is overwhelmingly large so naturally you
should zoom out (ctrl+s-down) to a point where the text is comfortable
to read; knowing that the smaller the print that can be read without
effort, the greater the benefit to the vision.

In the case that you do not have time to spare for the entire article,
please read the second part as it contains the most intriguing
reports.

"..if those pleasures were to have been so illustrated that the rest
of the world could understand what under the most favorable
circumstances that they really might be. For probably no man ever
lived and got such a lasting and inexhaustible fund of delight out of
his memory as Lord Macaulay. He began early, and the delight it gave
him hardly died before him. Mr Trevelan records, in the Life and
Letters, which we can elsewhere review, that at eight years of age he
hold of Scott's "Lay" [Sir Water Scott was a famed writer during that
time -Zetsu] during a call somewhere with his father, and that from
one reading he was familiar enough with it to repeat canta after canto
to his mother when he returned home. And perhaps such feats of memory
as the following are even more remarkable.."