The Mind and Its Education - George Herbert Betts

Binet says that the man who has not every type of imagery almost equally well developed is only the fractio ...

Lady Macbeth cries: Here's the smell of the blood still: All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this li ...

Become the touches of sweet harmony. Note how much clear images will add to Browning's words: ...

Are there not two moments in the adventure of a diver—one when a beggar he prepares to plunge, and one, wh ...

after they were first experienced, little will remain of them after a very short time. It is b ...

well, we must apprehend through all available senses and conserve in every possible type of image and fo ...

CHAPTER IX IMAGINATION Everyone desires to have a good imagination, yet not all would agree as to what con ...

It sets up our ideals and pictures us in the acts of achieving them. It enables us to live our joys a ...

us by the master minds of the ages. Anything less than this, and we are no longer dealing with literatur ...

white plumes, and a turned-up rim, that this combination will look well together. Suppose you have ne ...

will never allow him to lag or falter in the pursuit of the flying goal which points the direction of his e ...

listen to us or read our words than they are to ourselves? 2. THE MATERIAL USED BY IMAGINATION What is ...

The Two Factors in Imagination.—From the simple facts which we have just been considering, the conclusion is ...

highways of an experience lying beyond the confines of the narrow here and now. These are the minds whic ...

to copy and not create. Creative Imagination.—But we must have leaders, originators—else we should but i ...

phases of experience, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep; large in contact with ...

tribes. The pictures in "Snowbound" are full of suggestion for the imagination: but so is the history of the Puritan ...

Take some fanciful unreality which your imagination has constructed and see whether you can select from it ...

CHAPTER X ASSOCIATION Whence came the thought that occupies you this moment, and what determines the next t ...

much-used neural paths, while new tricks require the connecting up of groups of neurones not in the habit of w ...