It ought to be _True Greatness_.
The paper on _The Fantastic Imagination_ had its origin in the repeated
request of readers for an explanation of things in certain shorter
stories I had written. It forms the preface to an American edition of my
so-called Fairy Tales.
GEORGE MACDONALD.
EDENBRIDGE, KENT. _August 5, 1893._
CONTENTS.
THE IMAGINATION: ITS FUNCTIONS AND ITS CULTURE
A SKETCH OF INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT
ST. GEORGE'S DAY, 1564
THE ART OF SHAKSPERE, AS REVEALED BY HIMSELF
THE ELDER HAMLET
ON POLISH
BROWNING'S "CHRISTMAS EVE"
"ESSAYS ON SOME OF THE FORMS OF LITERATURE"
"THE HISTORY AND HEROES OF MEDICINE"
WORDSWORTH'S POETRY
SHELLEY
A SERMON
TRUE CHRISTIAN MINISTERING
THE FANTASTIC IMAGINATION
THE IMAGINATION: ITS FUNCTIONS AND ITS CULTURE. [Footnote: 1867.]
There are in whose notion education would seem to consist in the
production of a certain repose through the development of this and that
faculty, and the depression, if not eradication, of this and that other
faculty. But if mere repose were the end in view, an unsparing
depression of all the faculties would be the surest means of approaching
it, provided always the animal instincts could be depressed likewise,
or, better still, kept in a state of constant repletion.
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