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Ch. I

old associations, dormant during five years, had been instantaneously awakened in him.

Animals can certainly somehow judge of the intervals of time between recurrent events.

Two The Imagination is one of the highest prerogatives of man. By this faculty he unites, independently of the will, old former images & ideas, & thus creates the most brilliant & novel results. A poet, as Jean Paul Richter remarks, *(7) "who must reflect whether he shall make a character say yes or no — to the devil with him; he is only a stupid corpse." Dreaming gives us the best notion of this power of the brain; as to a Jean Paul again says "the dream is an involuntary act of poetry." The value of the productions product of our imagination will of course depend on the number, accuracy & vivi clearness of the impressions already previously fixed in our own the brains; & on our judgment & taste in selecting or rejecting the involuntary combinations, & to a certain extent in guiding the combinations. probably in aiding them.