[30] For the distinction between this form of imagination and the two others (fixed, objectified), I refer the reader to the [Conclusion] of this work, where the subject will be treated in detail.

[31] Colozza, L'immaginazione nella Scienza, Rome, 1900, pp. 111 ff.

[32] This unifying, organizing, creative principle is so active in certain minds that, placed face to face with any work whatever—novel, picture, monument, scientific or philosophic theory, financial or political institution—while believing that they are merely considering it, they spontaneously remake it. This characteristic of their psychology distinguishes them from mere critics.

[33] Oelzelt-Newin, op. cit., p. 49.

[34] Pitres et Régis, Séméiologie des obsessions et des idées fixes, 1878. Séglas, Leçons cliniques sur les maladies mentales, 1895. Raymond et Janet, Névroses et idées fixes, 1898.


SECOND PART

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IMAGINATION.