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Page 37* Of the heavenly gifts Goethe hère extols Imagination. Wisdom is called the hard-hearted mother, or step-mother, intimating the necessary discipline of the understanding to restrain imagination within the bounds of reason. Hope is her sister, more sedate^ but the comforter and consoler of life.

Theognis, in exile, wrote :

" Let Hope be présent, and with Hope, my f riend, Let every sacrifice commence and end."

The author of Democritus says: "Imagination régénérâtes the mind; it is the phoenix which préserves our feelings alive. Like a

spirit froni a better world it wanders about in the night, and enlightens it as does the moon at its fiill. It raises us above the limits of the every-day world, makes us rich in the midst of poverty, and peaceful amongst storms. Its loveliest flowers grow along the paths of self-renunciation and strife."

" The imagination is the greatest of human powers ; no matter in what field it works — in art or Uterature, in mechanical invention, in science, government, commerce, or reHgion — and the training of the imagination is, therefore, far the most important part of éducation." — Charles W. Eliot.

29. se garde bien de l'offenser: take good care not to offend her.