A TERRIBLE POWER

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4235, 24 January 1940, Page 9

A TERRIBLE POWER

MAN’S IMAGINATION “The imagination Ka mysterious, terrible power, lying partly within, and partly without, our control,’’lays Professor Irvine. “It is the avenue through which outward things reach into our minds c.nd mould our thoughts. It stores up sense " impressions, and subtly conibincs’and re-creates them into a new world—often a pathetic dream—inside Z the brain. It is of the storehouse ot the past and the factory of the future. It presents, sometimes according to our will and. sometimes against it, pictures of the present. . past, _aud future, of the possible and impossible, of the desirable and the undesirable. It is the medium'by which weapon-, ceive, realistically or phantastieally, of the world and life about us, .and according to its inward images'* we think and act. Usually, what "sets us dreaming affects us most. 2 arid eventually sets us acting. A 'man i has a vision of himself, or of uiucI cer" or of wealth, which he utteihpis I to realise. Every man’s life is- finally a problem of the imagination. ; After all each man must live alone - with his drama of a world and, W he I would be happy, he must make-that ‘dream’ as true and valid as hc-can. Obviously his success will defend not merely on the images which hC forms of the visible and the palpable world, but on the conceptions -with which he grasps at ultimate moral and religious realities.”