something more than complete unity;
there is almost identity, for they seem
to be two forms of activity of the
same power rather than distinct facul-
ties. Culture enables us to receive
the world into ourselves, not in
the reflection of a magic mirror,
but in the depths of a living soul;
to receive that world in such a way
that we possess it; it ceases to be
outside us and becomes part of our
very nature. The creative power en-
ables us to refashion that world and
to put it forth again out of ourselves,
as it was originally put forth out of
the life of the divine artist. The
creative process is, therefore, a double
process, and culture and genius stand
in indissoluble union.

The development of the imagina-
tion, upon the power of which both
absorption of knowledge and creative

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