386 Dr. Barnes on the Influence of the Imagination , 
powers. The heart mutt be in right order. The 
mind mutt feel and imagine juftly, in order to a 
.perfect fentence. 
Let us take, for an illuftration, one of the 
mott refpeitable and ufeful profeffions—that of 
a Phyfician. The fcience he profefles, is not, 
furely, that of demonstration. He will himfel’f 
acknowledge, that it is only, a fcience of pro¬ 
bability. Suppofe him devoid of imagination, 
and of feeling. How ill qualified would a 
merely mathematical mind be, to prefcribe, in 
cafes which demand, and almolt every cafe in 
Jome degree demands, prefence of mind, largenefs 
of thought, a view to remote and poftible confe- 
quences, together with that quicknefs, penetra¬ 
tion, and lagacity, which mud unite together, 
to constitute th tfkilful ■ph'fician !—Take common 
life. What is Prudence, but another name, for 
an ability to imagine all the poffible or probable 
confequences of inch or fuch a conduit, of fore- 
feeing.fuch and ltrch difficulties, and of balancing 
the good and evil, in fuch a manner, as, upon 
the whole, to avoid the greateft evil, and to 
obtain the greateft good ? But how could this 
-poffibly be done, without a lively, a&ive, and 
well directed imagination ? 
Nay, we may go farther* and fay, that even a 
Mathematician will make .very little progrels in 
demonflrative fcience, without the aid of this 
noble, but much miftaken and abufed faculty. 
Here, 
