ATTENTION.
As we have seen in the preceding chapters, before one can expect to recall or remember a thing, that thing must have been impressed upon the records of his subconsciousness, distinctly and clearly. And the main factor of the recording of impressions is that quality of the mind that we call Attention. All the leading authorities on the subject of memory recognize and teach the value of attention in the cultivation and development of the memory. Tupper says: “Memory, the daughter of Attention, is the teeming mother of wisdom.” Lowell says: “Attention is the stuff that Memory is made of, and Memory is accumulated Genius.” Hall says: “In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.” Locke says: “When the ideas that offer themselves are taken notice of, and, as it were, registered in the memory, it is Attention.” Stewart
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