fort to comprehend it must be purely
academic. It is enough to know that
if we are in any degree to share with
men and women of genius the faculty
of vision, insight, and creative energy,
we must master the conditions which
favor the development of those su-
preme gifts. There is laid, therefore,
upon the student who wishes to get
the vital quality of literature the ne-
cessity of repeating, by deliberate and
intelligent design, the process which
in so many of the masters of the arts
has been, apparently, accomplished
instinctively. To make observation,
study, and experience part of one's
spiritual and intellectual capital, it is,
in the first place, necessary to saturate
one's self with that which one is
studying; to possess it by constant
familiarity; to let the imagination
play upon it; to meditate upon it.

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