The Washington times., 1920-01-07
Imagination Without Dreaming
That Is the Secret of Great Developments.

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That Is the Secret of Great Developments
Almost every day you read in newspapers
ment of some new discovery invention. The has
awakened inventive minds to activity that has not been
known before in all history.
You wonder how all these ideas originated and
developed
They the result of IMAGINATION.
WITHOUT imagination may prosper relatively.
He may live comfortably, and die contented.
But, at best, such will only follow in beaten
paths He will only do what others have done before him
He will not receive any of the great rewards which
humanity offers those whose VACCINATIONS open for
the benefit Of ALL fields of thought Of successful mate
rial effort.
In material achievement there elements
tive force (Which may be subdvided indefinite
Der of classcations) and the great creative power mag
NATION.
Imagination enabled Marconi to see the possibility of
sending electric messages without wires
Had he been dreamer had he allowed his imagination
to wander indefinitely into notions of talking to other
planets the power of his imagination might have been in
vain.
His imagination enabled him to SEE the possibility,
and the lack of the dreamers quality enable him to REAL
IZE IT.
There were many men centuries ago who in an abstract
kind of way, knew that the earth round Their mag
nations led them to the discovery Of fact-and long be-
fore Gaileos recantation many men knew vaguely the
truth Of what he taught.
It took Calico, a man of great imagination not q
dreamer to demonstrate his truth to all the world.
1t took Columbus, with imagination and courage, but
of the dreamer about him. to sail to America and to
prove practically what is now known to every child
Wherever you great material success on new 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 could not
If you want to succeed in the world cultivate your
imagination And, you want your children to succeed
encourage them in the development of their magnaions
But let your imaginings and the imagnings of your
children stop this side of dreamland.
Your brains activity is divided the conscious and
the subconscious The conscious side of your mentality
puts you into communication with the world enables you
to meet and to cope with conditions and individuals
If you to succeed materially, the conscious mind
must control direct and limit the activities of the subcon-
scious mind with which the imagination does its work
your subconscious brain, in the departments of alb.
stract thought imagination and dreaming, be allowed
away with the practical side you may be very great
man in the future but you may be you will
not succeed now.
The earths greatest men are dreamers
The world never recognizes these dreamers The sue
cessful admits limitations He accepts conditions as
they He his imagination only as long as it can
carry him to individual success and comfort.
But the very greatest spirits among the spirits
Of dreamers.
Jesus Christ was dreamer. He saw the truth and
preached it, although it meant DEATH and He knew that it
meant death The brotherhood that He preached
hundred has not been realized but WILL be
realized in His and His teachings and His death will
be eternal factors in its realization
Slowly through the centuries the men of mapination
who do not dream working and striving each doing his
little part to realize the prophecies of the Great Dreamer
Each compared to Him is as a tiny talow din to th.
noonday sun, but each is necessary.
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