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acknowledging a new situation. We must acknowledge
that the ocean we would drink is too vast — but at
the same time we realize that extension in our case
is not confined to the intestine only. The stomach
is full, the ocean no fuller, both have the same qua-
lity of fullness. In that, then, one is equal to the
other. Having eaten, the man has released his mind.
THIS catalogue might be increased to larger pro- portions without stimulating the sense.
In works of the imagination I hat which is taken for great good sense, so that it seems as if an accurate precept were discovered, is in reality not so, but vigor and accuracy of the imagination alone. In work such as Shakespeares —
This leads to the discovery that has been made today — old catalogues aside — full of meat —
" the divine illusion has about it that inaccuracy which reveals that which I mean ".
There is only „ illusion " in art where ignorance of the bystander confuses imagination and its works with cruder processes. Truly men feel an enlargement before great or good work, an expansion but this is not, as so many believe today a „ lie ", a stupefaction, a kind of mesmerism, a thing to block
