The Pensacola journal., 1920-02-28
IMAGINATION THE POWER.
Washington Times.


announcement of some discovery or invention
The war has awakened inventive minds to an ac-
tivty that has not been known before in all hstory
You will wonder how all these new ideas are
originated and developed
They the result of IMAGINATION.
WITHOUT imagination a may prosper rea-
lively Me may live comfortably, and die contened
But at best, such q will only follow in beaten
paths. He will only do what others have done be-
fore him.
He will not receive any of the great rewards which
humanity offers to those whose VACCINATIONS
opens for the benefit of all. fields of thought
of successful material effort.
In material achievement there two elements
executive force (Which may be subdiyided into an
indefinite number of classifications) and the great
creative power, IMAGINATION.
Imagination enabled Marconi to see the possibili-
ties of sending electric messages without wires.
Had he been dreamer, had he allowed his imag-
ination to wander on indefinitely into notions of
talking to other planets, the power of his imagin-
alton might have been in vain
His Imagination enabled him to SEE the poss-
bility and the lack of the dreamers quality enabled
him to REALIZE 1T.
There were many men centuries ago who, in an
abstract kind of way. knew that the earth was
round Their imaginations led them to the discov-
cry Of facs-and, long before Gaileo's recantaton,
many men knew vaguely the truth of what he
taught
1t took Galileo, man Of great imagination, not
dreamer. to demonstrate his truth to all the
world
1t took Columbus. with Imagination and courage,
but none of the dreamer about him. to sail to
America and to prove practically what is now known
to every child.
Wherever you see great material success on a.
line, you see imagination without dreaming.
Many dreamer had foreseen the steam engine,
the steamboat, and other great inventions, without
result. At the right moment of imagination
like Fulton came along and did the actual work
the dreamer did not do.
If you want to succeed in the world, cultivate your
imagination. And, if you want your children to
succeed encourage them in the development of their
imagnations.
But let your imaginings and the magnings of
your children stop this side Of dreamland.
Our brains activity is divided into the conscious
and the subeonseious. The conscious side of your
mentality puts you into communication with the
world, enables you to meet and to cope with condi
tions and individuals.
If you are to succeed materially, the conscious
mind must CONTROL direct and limit the activities of
the subconscious mind with which the imagination
does it's work.
If your subconscous brain. in the departments of
abstract thought, Imagination. and dreaming be al
lowed to away with the practical side, you may
be very great man in the far distant future but
you may be you will not succeed now
The earth's greatest men are dreamers.
The world never recognizes these dreamers. The
successful man admits limitations. He accepts
ditions as they He uses his imagination only
as long rs it carry him 10 individual and
comfort
But the very greatest spirits among the
spirits of dreamers.
Jesus Christ dreamer He the truth
and preached it. although it meant death, and He
knew that it meant death. The brotherhood that He
preached nineteen hundred years ago has not yet
been realized. but it WILL be realized in His name,
and His teachings and His death will be eternal fac
tors in its realization
Slowly through the centuries the men of magn-
alton who do not dream are working and striving
each dopg his little part to realize The prophecies
of the Great Dreamer.
Each compared to Him is as a tiny talow dip to
the MONDAY sun, but each is necessary.