Most persons whose lives fall short of their great possibilities do so for lack of imagination. Imagination is the power of the mind to create mental images of objects previously perceived; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory. It should be for the accomplishment of a worth purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal. Producing ideas is an art. But an art is a waste of effort if it spends itself on the production, no matter how skillful, of something not worth doing. The human mind is not limited to the present by means of perception, or to the past by means of memory, but can anticipate the future by means of imagination.
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