Excerpt from Poetry and the Individual, Vol. 1: An Analysis of the Imaginative Life in Relation to the Creative Spirit in Man and Nature The philosophical need, then, is lzumanz'sation of philosophical interests, and it is gratifying to note that, on the whole, the younger thought of the time takes its bent in this direction. The book here offered aims by a sort of natural criti cism to lay bare some of the instinctive modes of human thought and so to assist the major philo sophical task. It is no ambitious metaphysic that is essayed. All that the author hopes to give is a one man's thinking through of one depart ment of human experience. The department is that in which the idealising motive is most mani fest, in the poetic instinct, in appreciation of beauty: yet if it should be shown how this is the dominant of human life, working to the manifes tation of a best humanity, therein should be im plied the extension of the idealism throughout life's whole. It is an agreeable duty to acknowledge for the work not only the encouragement, but the great helpfulness in criticism and suggestion, of the author's friends, Dr. Ferris Greenslet, and Mr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.