The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-10

onS than among Otner races less OF those
soft and sickly vices which destroy 1.-THE
ruggedness of states and of men" When
justice reigns everywhere. then the mil
lennium of intellect, at least, will have
arrived.
The next intellectual attribute which is
lacking in the brute, but which marks
ever the highest type OF man, is magma
ton. Perception. memory, judgment, un-
Observation-Disclosures are all found among
the brutes. sometimes In highly marked
degrees-as Mr.. Seton-Thompson and
other naturalists assure us-hut the di-
vine quality of Imagination is reserved for
man. This as we are told by Prof.
Charles Eliot Norton, is the capstone OF
the intellect. and at the same time alb
solutely necessary TO the living OF the
most useful and practical life. "A GER
tain kind Of Imaginative power" says
Prof. Macdonald, of Bowden college,
America has long exhibited. The men
who have cleared our forests built canals
and railroads, and made corn and wheat
grow upon our praries, have been. the
best of them, men who saw the material
world about them taking on, In the flu
ture another shape. No man
was ever a more typical embodiment of
common sense than Franklin. yet no one
who reads the records of hts earlier
years can fan to see how remarkable
was his power of projecting his thought
INTO lne future, anu pflnelnS TO the SOln-
ton Of the homely problems Of stoves
street lighting and circulating Libraries
the power of vivid and hopeful imag-
nation TO Prof. Norton the only
imagination worth anything Is that which
enables us to see ourselves in relation
to large and permanent interests. Presi-
dent Eliot. speaking to Harvard fresh
men lew years ago. urged them to
think OF themselves as they would like
to be--to hold before themselves the pic
ture OF the qualities they would Ike to
emhody. the influence they would Ike to
WELD. and the successes they would like
to attain, and let those be the guiding
torces in their young lives. This is the
very essence Of imagination That too
many Of our schools as Prof Norton sug-
gests, do little for the imaginative sense
and turn out young men and women who
are often as embarrassing as they are
well Informed. viii hardly he denied
Precisely how the lack Of Imagination
IS TO be supplied is not wholly clear.
Prof. Norton recommends tho wider
reading OF good literature especially Of
noble poetry, and the systematic cult
walton Of sympathy. not alone for our
own kind but for the lower animals as
well"
/ We should try to take the long view
of our work ana Of life--to see how
the end VIII crown the work This re-
H"'''' tiiAhtiiidA4hli' ne framing OF the
Imagination is almost entirely neglected
1y parents, and we seldom try to cuItivat.
il IN ourselves If "A woman could have
right Imagination abe would never huv
certain piece Of furniture which NOW
mars her parlor. II mother could have
looked forward with the eve Of imagine
ton, which was expressly formed to
probe the future, and construct the hu-
man heinE Of amy particular period from
me INFANT OF today. there would be-
mliiohs fewer Of spoiled children and Of
SHY. disappointed men and women lmaK-
NATION is too often thought Of ms given
I'D us alone for the writing OF ronances
or 'he droamiug ~ poems Instead. n
was given 60 us most 81 aII for the rigbt
living 90 our daily lives
br Bushnell, in q moment ~ inai,b,
~ Nj MHhle remarks. once pictured 90
friend with whom ne was talking the
making OF man. Aud after man was made
IN Gods Image. God said He ia com
petr. Th'u Dee added No there il no
way 100 which J can approach hlm 7 viii
open We great door ot imagination I'm bis
soul. ep itat ? may have access IN him
ana This great door, Hdda Mr. MabIr
"Aicn opens outward UPON thu whole
sweep and aplend1r ~ the universe. some
W'u bolt aud bar as II e were an un.
lawful snI Illicit entrance 90 the 4lui"'
We na'" -p9ken & ideals. and fa.I7 abe
to.uts necessity. II s. by th- Imagination
taat 80 make ideals. or as one of o8r
poets haF rt4