In the first place, if imagination be the impulse of which increase in individuality is the resulting motion, that quality should be at a minimum there.

The Far Orientals ought to be a particularly unimaginative set of people.

Such is precisely what they are.

Their lack of imagination is a well-recognized fact.

All who have been brought in contact with them have observed it, merchants as strikingly as students.
Indeed, the slightest intercourse with them could not fail to make it evident.