Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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VQLY -3 gi Q smizeflurl M X S' JOHN P. ASHLEY, 5. T. B., Ph. D. E T i Q H HOW TO CULTIVATE THE lwmciuariou. 1 1 Imagination is the pictuiizing facultj of the soul, it is the powci which piesents ideas and forms combinations. There are several kinds of imagination, first, the scientific or con- by which the scientist is enabled to hypothesize results not yet actual from a study conditions. Then, there is the inventive or creative imagination, which manifests itself in new and modified structive imagination, of present facts -and usually in- practical time and labor saving inventions, and i11 which the reproductive and comparative pro- cesses work over their materials subject to theidea of the good. There is also an aesthetic imagination which Coleridge has divided into the epic imagination, the perfection of which is in Milton, and the di unatic, of which Shakespeare is the absolute master. In this form of the imagination the material is imagination. ' In developing any form of imagination, first, have at hand abundant material: second, be intimate with nature, third, picturize clearly, fourth, analyze fully, fifth, synthesize completely: sixth, idealize greatly, seventh, poetize abundantlyg eighth, 'travel extensively, ninth, originate daily: tenth, illustrate freely. The commonest experiences of our sense life, in leaf, flower, and shrub, the lights and shadows of 'tn ascending and descending sun, afford boundless material for every imagination. When our ears and eyes are open, the world is full of the thoughts and voices of God. Q Among the processes that weaken and limit imagination are. reading to no definite purpose, the absence of idealizing our life daily, the unwillingness to search for words which will not under-express or over-express the mental picture, our assumption that when we know a part it may 'stand for the whole. Day-dreaming and castle-building are both morally and mentally bad. To idealize should imply obligation to realize the ideal. FREDERICK LUTZ, A. M. N THE study of foreign languages many faculties come into play, among which the imagination is by no means the least. A language is, so to speak, the living history of a people, showing forth 'its make-up its customs, its inner life. And words also have histories. Now surely it requires imagination to enter into this spirit of a' language so that one is for the time being, following the great lights of all the departments of human knowledge by means of that language: so that one is thinking and living and playing in the thoughts of the great men that have benefited the race. It is by the flight of our imagination that we appreciate art, literature, science and history, in short S . Qi f on N W 3. I . ' mn 95 worked over subject to the idea of the true and the beautiful. Q We might discuss also ethical and religious E245 L Q h X . W 'N I .J j Q iii 5 the true life of the people. It is due to this trained- imagination that we enjoy the wealth that ancient art and literature so freely bequeathed to us. It is by poetic fancy that we can read, in translation at least, all that is noble and true and beautiful in any literature. -gg-