Book Excerptn of what is far bettersaid in the preceding extract from Carlyle, but it was written before wehad read (if reviewers may be allowed to confess such ignorance) thebook from which that extract is taken.]But while the imagination of man has thus the divine function of puttingthought into form, it has a duty altogether human, which is paramount tothat function--the duty, namely, which springs from his immediaterelation to the Father, that of following and finding out the divineimagination in whose image it was made. To do this, the man must watchits signs, its manifestations. He must contemplate what the Hebrew poetscall the works of His hands."But to follow those is the province of the intellect, not of theimagination."--We will leave out of the question at present that poeticinterpretation of the works of Nature with which the intellect hasalmost nothing, and the imagination almost everything, to do. It isunnecessary to insist that the higher being of a flower even isdependent for its recRead More