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  Unseen. 
  And 
  yet 
  Pascal 
  was 
  not 
  wrong 
  

   when 
  he 
  placed 
  this 
  same 
  faculty 
  of 
  Ima- 
  

   gination 
  at 
  the 
  very 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  Deceitful 
  

   Powers." 
  For 
  it 
  is, 
  in 
  truth, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  

   effective 
  causes 
  and 
  instruments 
  of 
  Degrada- 
  

   tion. 
  It 
  is 
  its 
  function 
  to 
  give 
  form 
  and 
  

   expression 
  to 
  all 
  those 
  vague 
  emotions 
  which 
  

   arise 
  inevitably 
  out 
  of 
  contact 
  between 
  the 
  

   mind 
  that 
  is 
  in 
  Man 
  and 
  the 
  mind 
  that 
  is 
  

   in 
  Nature. 
  These 
  emotions 
  are 
  literally 
  

   what 
  the 
  Poet 
  calls 
  them 
  — 
  "the 
  blank 
  mis- 
  

   givings 
  of 
  a 
  creature 
  moving 
  about 
  in 
  worlds 
  

   not 
  realized." 
  But 
  without 
  Knowledge 
  given 
  

   or 
  acquired, 
  to 
  guide 
  the 
  elements 
  in 
  Imagina- 
  

   tion 
  which 
  are 
  purely 
  intellectual, 
  and 
  with- 
  

   out 
  virtue 
  to 
  control 
  the 
  elements 
  which 
  are 
  

   chiefly 
  moral, 
  this 
  "Superb 
  Power," 
  as 
  Pascal 
  

  

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