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

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