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there is a sharp division — the energizing force of imagination on one side — and the acquisitive — PROGRESSIVE force of the lump on the other

The social class with its religion, its faith, sincerity and all the other imaginative values is positive (yes)

the merchant, hibernating, unmagnatized — tends to drop away into the isolate, inactive particles — Religion is continued then as a form, art as a convention —

To the social, energized class — ebullient now in Russia the particles adhere because of the force of the imagination energizing them —

Anyhow the change of Baroja interested me Among artists, or as they are sometimes called "men of imagination" "creators", etc. this force is recognized in a pure state — All this can be used to show the relationships between genius, hand labor, religion — etc. and the lack of feeling between artists and the middle class type —

The jump between fact and the imaginative reality

The study of all human activity is the deliniation of the cresence and ebb of this force, shifting from