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CHAPTER VHI 2t power for the entire world, and perhaps thousands of years from now the idea will become an accomplished fact, provided that some other force than gravity operates the machine. 9. Jmagination is inherent, but untrained. It can be developed to I think along sane and plausible lines or permitted to develop as it will I without discipline or direction. One is the imagination of the story writer: the other the mind of the fool. The imagination cannot only | be developed but directed in its development so that it does its work I well and properly. It is important that in the early stages this be I done. 10. The statement is frequently made that the uneducated can write as good plays as the college graduate. This is not true. The man who does not possess a college education may, and often does, write better plays, but he must have been educated in some manner, and the more ample his education the more fully equipped he becomes. Noth- ing can be taken from the mind that has not already been placed therein. It follows that the educated mind is better developed and better stored with facts than the mind uneducated. The education does not have to be of the schoolroom or the lecture hall, but the mind must be properly stocked, just as the shelves of the storekeeper must be filled, before business can be done. No man, no matter who he may I be, can evolve stories from his inner consciousness. He may be sin- j gularly inventive, and able to draw upon his imagination for elabora-l tion, but he cannot think more than he has learned, no matter how' that learning was acquired. Imagination is merely the ability to store away a fact and remove a fancy precisely as the chemist can take common brown sugar and in the electric furnace transform it into a diamond. If you cannot perform a similar operation you cannot be- come an author, no matter how great your eagerness nor how con- vincing the assurances of your friends or would-be teachers. " (l.LXX:4) (2.1:6) (3.XIII :4 LXX :3) (S.VIII :12 XII :S) (10. Vni:l). CHAPTER VIII UNO THE IMAGINATION NO matter how active the imagination may be. it must be kept f supplied with material with which to work. We are born with ' minds absolutely a blank. Imagination may be one of its quali- ties, but the mind contains nothing with which it may be supplied and so it is dormant. The mind must be stored with material through i£a^r^ and o bservation else imagination is useless. The process of miagination is not so much a process of creation as a process of tifflp s- mutation; projecting the base material of unoriginal idea into the gold!