or impulsive it is doubtful whether they bring any return. Hence it becomes a question of goals to be won. It is the end that should justify the means, not the mere origin, or the bare fact of existence. Therefore the crucial question is, In what manner can I best express my zeal?

The desires and emotions well in hand, one may advance still further in mental co-ordination by aid of the imagination. Since the mind is dependent on memory-images and their associates, no small part of the process of overcoming the desires and emotions consists in substituting a group of ideal pictures or mental images in place of those on which the lower desires and emotions thrive. Like the emotions, our imagination takes its clue from the prevailing tone of the mental life. If the life be sensuous, nothing will increase this sensuality in a mind of a responsive type more rapidly than the imagery on which the desires are permitted to feed. On the contrary, it is through the imagination that desire becomes creative and attains higher levels. Likewise an emotion, say of fear or jealousy, increases in power until it sweeps through and controls the mind, chiefly because the imagination is called into play and allowed to enlarge upon a slight suggestion. To possess power to check or to give rein to the imagination is indeed to have command over both desires and emotions. Hence the importance of keeping the imagination