Thus, if I have just been thinking of Comte, and overhear a person exclaim, "I'm positive," I irresistibly tend, for the moment, to ascribe to him an avowal of discipleship to the great positivist.
_Poetic Illusion._ The most remarkable example of this projection of feeling is undoubtedly illustrated in the poetic interpretation of inanimate nature.

The personification of tree, mountain, ocean, and so on, illustrates, no doubt, the effect of association and external suggestion; for there are limits to such personification.

But resemblance and suggestion commonly bear, in this case, but a small proportion to active constructive imagination.

One might, perhaps, call this kind of projection the hallucination of insight, since there is nothing objective corresponding to the interpretative image.
The imaginative and poetic mind is continually on the look out for hints of life, consciousness, and emotion in nature.

It finds a certain kind of satisfaction in this half-illusory, dream-like transformation of nature.