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CHAPTER VI. 



TRACES OF UNITY IN THE PHENOMENA OF 

 IMAGINATION, WILL, AND INTELLIGENCE. 



THE history of the memory is substantially the history 

 of the imagination also, any difference being no greater 

 than that which is produced in one and the same song 

 by altering the key and words. And so likewise with 

 the histories of the will and the intellect. 



About the imagination it is difficult to think at all 

 without becoming bewildered. A faculty which inter- 

 meddles with all things, past, present, and to come, ever 

 spurning the bounds of time and space, and never ceasing 

 to exercise a power which may be rightly regarded 

 as creative, can scarcely be earth-born. Nor is the wonder 

 lessened by supposing that the phenomena have to do 

 with a dreaming rather than with a waking state of mind. 

 Too often dreams are merely disjointed repetitions of 

 waking thoughts and feelings, but they are not always 

 so. They may sink to the level of lunacy or rise to that 

 of prophecy. They are always too wild and disorderly 

 to admit of being brought into subjection to any kind of 

 physical rule. In the waking state the body always asserts 

 itself with sufficient emphasis, but not so in the dream- 



