8 poet and the artist alone. The philosopher, the scien- or enlargement of consciousness ? and pain. And what is joy but a heightened intensity It is the imagination to which all the great things aims of business and work-a-day life and give our- the jog-trot or everyday life? Is it altogether im- ideal of business success ? Must we forever keep our- But the great mass of the people drink to enjoy, not truths, cold, bitter, taunting truths, wherein your Must we be condemned forever to move along in once more the dreams of our youth, live for the to stupefy themselves and kill the source of both joy worldly scholars are very apt and punctual, that bind May we not soar above the commonplace and dream ination? "There are some falsehoods on which men selves at the keenest edge of economic efficiency? men down to earth with leaden chains/' bidden to lay aside the merely material, if not sordid, selves over to the loftier aspirations of the higher proper to turn into a run now and then? Is it for- The Higher Life. ination ! What would the world be without the imag- in the world are due. Not the imagination of the life? Are we to be bound down forever to the low mount as on bright wings to Heaven. There are some nonce in the realm of the imagination ? Ah, the imag-