ings of his masterly imagination with-
out feeling a liberation of his own
faculty of seeing things as parts of a
vast order of life. He does not gain
the poet's creative power, but he is
enlarged and enriched to the point
where his own imagination plays
directly on the material about it;
he receives it into himself, and in the
exact measure in which he learns
the secret of absorbing what he sees,
feels, and knows, becomes master and
interpreter of the world of his time,
and restorer of the world of other
times and men. For the imagina-
tion, playing upon fact and experi-
ence, divines their meaning and puts
us in possession of the truth and life
that are in them. To possess this
magical power is to live the whole of
life and to enter into the heritage of
history.

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