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Title: The fountain : with jets of new meanings
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Spiritualism
Publisher: Boston : William White & Co. New York : American News Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the imagination, is impossible. As well at-tempt to run machinery without lubricating oil. Of all the wonderful genii—surpassing any mon-ster you. ever read of in the u Arabian Nights of longforgotten ages—the modern locomotive is the most 140 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS perfect. But it was first perceived by the imagina-tion. It came up out of the vapors within the en-chanted chambersof the mind. Thenthe inventor beganto describe his im-aginings by tongueand pen; and atlast, which wassurpassingly bestof all, he embodiedhis ideas insteel, iron, wood,and brass. Andnow behold, O yefavorites of For-tune ! behold,throughout the en-tire prolific beltof civilization, thepowerful genii which the first man evoked from thevapors of his imagination ! The human mind, especially when youthful andalive to Intuition, is a wondrous world of beauteouspictures. It is a complete pantheon of divine powersand high purposes; within itself a gallery of God-painted scenes, beycmd the language of the tongue to
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A MIGHTY MACHINE BORN IN IMAGINATION. IMAGINATION AS A FORCE. 141 portray. Young persons, with such impressible organ-izations, quickly acquire a reputation for story-tell-ing, which is twin-sisterto falsehood; andstrange to say, both arewell-born, being first cous-ins to mankinds sublimefaculties of invention,without which the worldcould make no positiveadvancement in science,mechanism, and art. Thus you comprehendthat the human spirit isa wonderful compound of the young mind is a repository r OP PICTURES. impersonal principles—a fearful arrangement of impressible faculties—whichincessantly call for gratification, and for the most wisedramatic discipline. Pictures within the mind—that is, the inwroughtpossessions of the imagination—call for pictures adapt-ed to the pleasure of the senses. Modern educationalliterature is an example of this proposition. Latestissues of school-books teem with pictorial illustrationsof positive excellence as works of art. Every depart-ment of cre

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