to understand. We never really pos-
sess an idea, a bit of knowledge, or a
fact of experience until we get below
the mind of it into the heart of it.
Now, sympathy in this sense is the
imagination touched with feeling; it
is the imagination bringing thought
and emotion into vital relation. In
the process of culture, therefore, the
imagination plays a great part; for
culture, it cannot too often be said, is
knowledge, observation, and experi-
ence incorporate into personality and
become part of the very nature of the
individual. The man of culture is
pre-eminently a man of imagination;
lacking this quality, he may become
learned by force of industry, or a
scholar by virtue of a trained intelli-
gence, but the ripeness, the balance,
the peculiar richness of fibre which
characterise the man of culture will be

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