MYSTERIOUS POWER

Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3663, 3 February 1940, Page 7

MYSTERIOUS POWER

MAN'S IMAGINATION STOREHOUSE OF IMPRESSIONS "The imagination is a mysterious, terrible power lying partly within and partly without our L control," says Professor Irvine. "It is the avenue through which outward things reach into our minds and mould our thoughts. It stores up sense impressions and subtly combines and recreates them into a new world—often a pathetic dream —inside the brain. "It is the storehouse of the past and the factory of the future. It presents, sometimes according to our will and sometimes against it, pictures of the present, past and future, of the possible and impossible, of the desirable and the un-

desirable. It is the medium by which we conceive, realistically or phantastically, 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 and eventually sets us acting. "A man has a vision of himself, or of success, or of wealth, which he attempts to realise. Every man's life is finally a problem of the imagination. After all, each man must live alone with his dream of a world and., if he would be happy,

he must make that 'dream' as true and valid as he ■.can*."-.: •■,