The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-08
Notes by The way-Fact and Fancy

nature often contains tue deepest wells OF
g~entleness and love, so are the extremes of
Fact and Fancy found Furnishing side by
side, each giving to the other greater prom
inenoe.
Lydia Maria Child, in the following
quotation gives us a most pleasing Illus
tration of fact and fancy: 1T is not | who
drudge, it is merely the case containing
me. defy all the powers on earth and
hell to make me scour floors and feed pigs
If | choose meanwhile to be off conversing
with the angels Here fact and fancy
are brought into simultaneous action and
blest are the possessors of these extremes
of human nature. Why blest? Because
few OF us but have TO meet and dispense
with the facts, the realities of life; and how
like d~rudgery these would become if we
could not meanwhile be off In the company
of fancy, of imagination, if you please
conVersing with the angels. But the ques-
tion arises: Are we always eonyersing with
angels when in imagination's company?
We fear not, or if angels, sometimes Of the
neither world. Fancy or Imagination, as
we understand it, is parent of the darker
as well as Of the gentler passions, and in It's
pathway are found Anger. Despair, Envy
and Fear, side by side with Ambition,
Hope, Joy and Love. Yet taking these sew
eral passions separately how near an i'm
possibility IL becomes to be the possessor
OF the one without the other. low near
AKIN IN many instances becoms Ambition
ana Anger, Hope and Despair, Joy and
Envy, and Love and Fear. Fancy or i'm
aglnation seems to a great extent to be the
legitimate parent of them all.
Fact, according to the above quotation,
necessitates the lease" to feed pigs and
Corn Hnorc -JiTn T 4bo cpirif a m off aRs1-
versing with the angels. Beautiful inter
mingling of life and death. The case
will die, but not so 81" the spirit within
the case, but viii, after the facts, the real
tiles of life have ceased, go TO mingle with
that class of angels whose company we
have most ardently sought. What viii
best enable us to dwell in the afterward
with the class most desirable-tbe angels
of light? Is it not by attending faithfully
to the facts OF life, meeting and conquer
ing every duty diligently that we are
brought nearer to fancy's realism, or
ldealism-Christs companionshlP? But
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