CHAPTER XII.
The Imagination.
The Lady of Shalott, sitting in her tower, looked into her magic mirror and saw the whole world go by,--monk, maiden, priest, knight, lady, and king.

In the mirror of the imagination not only the world of to-day but the entire movement of human life moves before the eye as the throngs of living men move on the streets.

For the imagination is the real magician, of whose marvels all simulated magic is but a clumsy and mechanical imitation.

It is the real power, of which all material powers are very inadequate symbols.

Rarely taken into account by teachers, largely ignored by educational systems and philosophies, it is the divinest of all the powers which men are able to put forth, because it is the creative power.