Attention indispensable to the performance of any great work. _Anecdote_.

 

II. DEFINED AND ILLUSTRATED.

 

1. From common observation.

 

2. From the lives of great men {Carlyle, Robert E. Lee.}

 

III. ITS RELATION TO OTHER MENTAL POWERS.

 

1. Reason.

 

2. Imagination.

 

3. Memory.

 

4. Will. _Anecdote_.

 

IV. ATTENTION MAY BE CULTIVATED.

 

1. Involuntary attention.

 

2. Voluntary attention. _Examples_.

 

V. CONCLUSION.