Now  what  is  the  secret  of  wise  judgment  ?
Does  it  not  consist  very  largely  in  the  active
exercise  of  the  imagination  ?  A  man  of  sound
judgment  is  a  man  who  looks  all  round  a  thing,
and  to  do  this  requires  the  use  of  a  disciplined
imagination.  Wellington  used  to  say  that  one  of
the  great  secrets  of  successful  generalship  was  the
power  to  imagine  what  was  going  on  behind  a
stone  wall.  That  is  the  faculty  we  require  in
common  life,  the  power  to  imagine  what  is  going
on  in  our  brother's  life,  the  power  to  "  put  ourselves
in  his  place."  Imagination  is  the  twin  sister  to
sympathy  They  move  together.  If  we  had  a
broader  and  more  responsive  sympathy,  we  should
have  a  quicker  and  more  alert  imagination.  A
more  spacious  sympathy  and  a  more  active  imagin-
ation would  give  us  two  of  the  main  essentials  of

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