A Defence of Prejudice, And Other Essays
A Defence of Prejudice, And Other Essays
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It is an exercise in applied logic.
Our body of knowledge is nothing more than an amorphous mass of unrelated facts unless it is touched by the imagination. The fancy gives form to knowledge, relating part to part and part to the whole. It exercises the art of gen- eralship in massing facts in proper order and sequence, and in directing their movement ac- cording to a comprehensive plan. Knowledge must have life also as well as form. Fact with- out fancy is dead. The imagination, therefore, mus...t be summoned in order to give to the body of knowledge the spirit of life.
In all reasoning the mind puts together its material in some new combination possessing a significance which the various parts taken sep- arately could not in the remotest manner reveal.
The ingenious power to work out new combina- tions of old material is the peculiar function of the imagination, which in this manner gives a touch of originality even to the most common- place tasks of life. By the constructive proc- esses of the imagination every form of activity is widened in scope and deepened in efficiency Digitized by Google THE DIALECTIC IMAGINATION 107 by the brooding thought which sees things in the light of what they may become.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is an exercise in applied logic.
Our body of knowledge is nothing more than an amorphous mass of unrelated facts unless it is touched by the imagination. The fancy gives form to knowledge, relating part to part and part to the whole. It exercises the art of gen- eralship in massing facts in proper order and sequence, and in directing their movement ac- cording to a comprehensive plan. Knowledge must have life also as well as form. Fact with- out fancy is dead. The imagination, therefore, mus...t be summoned in order to give to the body of knowledge the spirit of life.
In all reasoning the mind puts together its material in some new combination possessing a significance which the various parts taken sep- arately could not in the remotest manner reveal.
The ingenious power to work out new combina- tions of old material is the peculiar function of the imagination, which in this manner gives a touch of originality even to the most common- place tasks of life. By the constructive proc- esses of the imagination every form of activity is widened in scope and deepened in efficiency Digitized by Google THE DIALECTIC IMAGINATION 107 by the brooding thought which sees things in the light of what they may become.
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