We are apt to disparage the imagination because through its agency we create all that is unreal, all our fancies, superstitions, and many of our fears. ¹ But it is important to remember that the imagination is merely a servant of the intelligence and the will. Hence if we sink in the scale it is for many other reasons, while we rise because of the ideals which the imagination in part creates. The essential is to enlist the imagination so that through its marvelous power we may know reality the better, conceiving of it in detail, making our scientific conceptions clear and vivid.

The chief principle is the power the mind possesses to call up desirable associations, create in imagination the condition which one wishes to attain. There is no direction in which this power of suggestion cannot be exercised. ² It serves the man of science, of affairs, as well as the maker of character, the artist, and the poet. It is particularly important for all who are trying to overcome unfortunate habits, unruly desires, and disturbing emotions; for by the aid of the right imagery one

¹ Cf. The Practice of Self-Culture, by Hugh Black, Corlis Co., Buffalo.

² For an accurate account of suggestion, see discussions of this subject in Religion and Medicine, by El wood Worcester; and Psychotherapy, by Hugo Munsterberg, New York, Moffatt, Yard & Co.