and yet he reveals to us the secret of
the temperament and genius of his
race. And he does this because he
sees in his race the potentialities of
the seed; the vitality, beauty, fra-
grance, and growth which lie enfolded
in its tiny and unpromising substance.
If the reality of a thing is not so
much its appearance as the totality
of that which is to issue out of it,
then nothing can be truly seen with-
out the use of the imagination. All
that the Idealist asks is that life shall
be seen not only with his eyes but
with his imagination. His descriptions
are accurate, but they are also vital;
they give us the thing not only
as it looked standing by itself, but
as it appeared in the complete life
of which it was a part; he makes
us see the physical side of the fact
with great distinctness, but he makes

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