conceptions deeply realised in the im-
agination. Idealism has suffered much
at the hands of feeble practition-
ers who have substituted irrational
dreams for those far-reaching visions
and those penetrating insights which
are characteristic of its true use and
illustration in the arts. The height
of the reaction so vigorously and im-
pressively illustrated in a great group
of modern realistic works is due
largely to the weakness and extrava-
gance of the idealistic movement.
When sentiment is exchanged for its
corrupting counterfeit, sentimentalism,
and clear and definite thinking gives
place to vague and elusive emotions
and fancies, reaction is not only inevi-
table but wholesome; the instinct for
sanity in men will always prevent
them from becoming mere dreamers
and star-gazers.

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