New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-26
ImaSinaiiOn: lis Cuitare and ice.
BY REV Oh. SEARS

The fifth Lecture in the series at the Taber-
4; Gle was delivered on Wednesday evening Ivy Rev Dr.
SKARs, Of Boston Secretary of the Mass. Board OF
Education his subject being the UsE and CULTURE OF
the InAoINATIoN" Before introducing the lecture OF
the evening, the Chairman announced that the next
lecture of the Course would be delivered on Weines-
Cay evening next by Wendell Philips Esq, OF Boston
Subject "7Re lost Arts" Rev Or. Sears then came
forward and proceeded 10 address the essem5lage rs
follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: propose 20 address you
this evening tie subject OF the Culture, Discipline
ard Uses Of the Imagination wil Tor the sake oil Us
unCton call It fqttectaal InaginsioH ~ contrst H.
ngufhcd 10 a Dwless and dtiu imagination and tancu
eonceiis mean by 4, that power which tue mnd mas
q initiating 10 t,f eny thing of which has previously
taken eOenizGncc and also ot combining tncse images
INTO asymmerical form know that II is often man
taned that the Imagination Il not isCuNy 10 DC edu-
essd but rather TO BE- eradioad That Y Is an antaso'
nit OF the reason disutber OF the passions and de-
styoyer Of the mind Bur hold this TO nc ahk heresS
fer tic first place for education to be what Is anNe
s'ly conceded, prcpoitioaaie Symneiy Oh AZ .le
powers Of the mind then the unagnGnon a. an
Mdestruciible faculty, Is proper oieet - Hs'i'
bg. And IN the next psce, those MINUS wa "a
have made the most conspicuous display IN his
Try have been those in which TIE reason and the INA
girSon have been Joined Plato, Mex 10 Il liaef the
moet original source Of original thought ana iesrnns
wa - much apoet ~ pho -ophes. NhN oEplN U
tfc imagination Is set forth in those heauniGl dosSes
upon which scholars ever delight 20 dwell NehNe
avery different example in the o. Luthcr. IL was
ao merely the bolu daring in that great i1ra hero
nor hN inyiLcble N and strong faih, and clear AID
penetrating Judgment thar gave him such power over
lie minds OF people but IL is the magnificent magma
hca which gave such frcc to hs words, sna enabled
san to iUrm those thuncerlsss Of nature II was tus
seny of imagination s,r"rsdc6 60 the other powers
o. HI mind, which enabled him 20 shine Ike tie span
gsoc and starry innancat From his lowiy abode he
seni cut those nichty bonbshes which echoed "a thc
very halle Of the Vstcsn and aroused Kings aud I'm
pefors
We have very dGcrent example Of the union OF re
VI, eTstsnding ~ the Imagination m tho case OF .
ny Taylor. He he'd mt the flaming TO- e. Lvilcr,
(which be could k.ndlc fame he the Cunning q
MOSCOW. But hn genial tranquil mind, ,.s
mace him 81 home with all the varied feeling az oar
nature. We Icty say OF HIM ss Dryden said Of az.
other, that
he Imagination often scars 70 ofy nights;
ara when he ,hoOses 10 des md,
re CORES es.lly down-geaty orcling u the ar.
Afe iee nightingale, mounting, snd san saS'ns as rs
rites'
We may also refer 70 Burke illustration OF what
We have std. When g see Lis WORKS We ieei 1at W
sis IN contact with prodigous genius we are sirncS
VIZ he loness OF hs iicasSsi'h tAe soGadncss OF hs
~"F, and will tAe amazing extent OF his Re4ulTe'
AloStage And yet " Is the splendor OF MS lnnssns
&n With whics ms IND Is swsslning, that makes hiin
delightful in hs productions We uishi retor 70 Joan
sessi, ~hO possesseS not merely vgor OF Llcuset ont
SePSusners OF inagnslson snd the power OF mirroring
y AZ The lights In his reach, that often teca a.
1Sssl We were pGssing through spend1d galisry OF
30 Flemish paintings when perusing MS writings. In
eaenerr, ALEC. how much Of his rstlsss eioquence and
po"er would De Lost his imagination 10 dwinlle
way to thu, cf ordinary lie did not. Il is true,
seonn! hiraseb to all the res Of the rhetoricsn; but