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ative and intellectual faculties of man are regarded 

 from any lower point of view than this. The work of the 

 imagination is creative in the true sense of the word. It 

 lies outside the world of appearances, but it is not the 

 less real on that account In every case it is real enough 

 for the memory to take hold of it and keep hold of it 

 as firmly as if it had been enacted in this world ; and 

 as more than one passage in the Sermon on the Mount 

 will serve to show it were well if it were not so in 

 very many instances. In every case it is difficult to find 

 wherein the memorial record of a fancy differs from that 

 of a fact either as regards vividness or persistency. 

 And in very many cases it may be questioned whether 

 the latter record has not much more to do with fancy 

 than with fact whether the fact itself is not so much 

 dressed up by the imagination as to run no small risk 

 of not being recognized if this dress were removed 

 whether the fact would assert itself at all as such with- 

 out this dress. At all events, the creatures of the imagi- 

 nation are sufficiently real to warrant the conclusion, not 

 only that the imagination is creative in the true sense of 

 the word, but also that the power which may be exer- 

 cised in this direction is altogether beyond measure. 

 Nor is a different conclusion to be drawn from the 

 history of the human intelligence. It is short of the 

 truth to say of man, with Hamlet, ' in understanding how 

 like a god,' unless it be understood that this god is The 

 God to whom omniscience must be attributed. Indeed, 

 the more the history of the imaginative and intellectual 

 faculties is looked into the clearer it becomes that here 

 man is, potentially, the image of the All-wise Creator, and 

 that illumination comes to him, ' not by penetration, 

 microscopic inspection, and syllogistic groping from one 

 syllable of the book of nature to another, whereby one 



