The advocate., 1895-07-03


cause 1t was presented to me by very dear friend
when l was last in England. Coming to see me of
for America, His Grace, Che Duke Of Grafton, tool
out his old pocketbook and begged me to keep it 81
q token of his friendship. 1 have grieVed great
deal over It's loss, and could not imagine where
had left IT,"
lam SO glad Il was found, and that it was yours, "
exclaimed Gertrude, with the utmost sincerity
Had Dobbins understood what she inWardly
meant by this remark he might have been troubled
AS it was, he was only encouraged to dispense a
little more of the same kind of truth he had already
supplied
eyes, when go TO England always spend most
of my leisure with His Grace. He would take It i'll
if I should put up at an inn, you know"
Certainly he would not like that Now that
you have told me it once belonged TO real Duke,
have taken fancy to It. Won't you give me the
old pocket-book to keep"
"Of course, Miss Stilwell, can refuse you moth
ing. I would not part with the treasure to any
other being in the world. But please do not allow it
to be seen. 1t would greve His Grace to hear had
given away his gift, even to you"
az can understand how he might feel, and shall
be very careful that not word about it shall reach
his ears"
And Dobbins rode away thanking his stars that
he had not lost his pocket book where he feared that
he had, but had left it securely at StilWes and he
was easier in his mind than he had been since the
inquest, When after everybody had gone he searched
for "Hs Grsces" present in vain and feared it had
been found by somebody else. NosO, he felt sbso
lutely secure. Yet until now, he could have sworn
he left it lying there on the grass In the wood Had
he had not been such q "hard-headed, practical,
commonsense" mortal, he might have suspected
that some one did find it and give 1t to Gertrude;
but to practical, cOmmon-sense" man, such
theory was too romantic to even suggest itself.
The most egreglous blunderers in the world, even
as to everyday practical affairs, is the man who
prideS himself on his "common-sense' and his en-
tire innocence of imagination. 1t needs but mo-
ment'g reflection to see why it must beso. Without
imagination how can one take In all the bearings of
any factP No matter though he may never have
heard of logic or Of metaphysics the man who seeks
to arrive at conclusion from facts which have been
observed, must frame some hypothesis, and an hV-
pothesiS Is purely structure Of the imagination.
Scientists, who are supposed to be guided by cold
reason al0ne, must be men Of vivid imagination,
and this is why scientists as the reader has doubt
less observed, usually write highly entertaining
books. Huxley, Tyndall, Spencer, Proctor, Wal
ever tires of reading what they have
writtenP A scientist without lively imagination
would make no new discoveries whatever. An OBJ
server of certain phenomena and night, the
apparent curvature of the earth surface and so on
-inpGgined the earth q globe, turning around and
around and journeying around the sun, and it was
discovered that this SuppOsition explained all the
phenomens. Darwin inagined the origin of
species, and then applied that supposition to the
facts. collection of facts is only valley Of dry
bones to mere reason. Imagination must breathe |
life into them by some SuppOsitiO1- hypoth-
osis-Which will make something of them. Again,
The world is full of sentiment, The controlling mo-
lives of the majority Of people with whom one has
10 do in ordinary business affairs, are not "prac.
tical, but sentimental Few are even the most sor-
lid crimes which have not their origin in affection
Tor somebody, desire to have money in order to sp