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there is a sharp division—the energizing force of imagination on one side—and the acquisitive—PROGRESSIVE force of the lump on the other

The social class with its religion, its faith, sincerity and all the other imaginative values is positive (yes)

the merchant, hibernating, unmagnatized— tends to drop away into the isolate, inactive particles—Religion is continued then as a form, art as a convention—

To the social, energized class—ebullient now in Russia the particles adhere because of the force of the imagination energizing them—

Anyhow the change of Baroja interested me Among artists, or as they are sometimes called "men of imagination" "creators", etc. this force is recognized in a pure state—All this can be used to show the relationships between genius, hand labor, religion—etc. and the lack of feeling between artists and the middle class type—

The jump between fact and the imaginative reality

The study of all human activity is the deliniation of the cresence and ebb of this force, shifting from