I don't say it is so, for I know nothing, or at least little, about such things.

I have had no experience of the sort any more than you--and I have been out whole nights on the mountains when I was a shepherd." "Why then should you trouble your fancy about them ?" "Perhaps just for that reason." "I do not understand you." "I mean, because I can come into no communication with such a world as may be about me, I therefore imagine it.

If, as often as I walked abroad at night, I met and held converse with the disembodied, I should use my imagination little, but make many notes of facts.

When what may be makes no show, what more natural than to imagine about it?
What is the imagination here for ?" "I do not know.

The less one has to do with it the better." "Then the thing, whatever it be, should not be called a faculty, but a weakness!" "Yes." "But the history of the world shows it could never have made progress without suggestions upon which to ground experiments: whence may these suggestions come if not from the weakness or impediment called the imagination ?" Again there was silence.