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But where a definite wish or purpose, an end, dominates this reverie and links up its images and ideas into a cycle, we get in combination all the valuable properties both of affective and of directed thinking; although the reverie or contemplation place in the fringe-region of our mental life, and in apparent freedom from the control of the conscious reason.
Here, in this fringe-region which alone seems fully able to experience adoration and wonder, or apprehend the values we call holiness, beauty or love is the source of that intuition of the heart to which the mystic owes the love which is knowledge, and the knowledge which is love. Here is the true home of inspiration and invention.
In this passage we have a definite invitation to retreat from volitional to affective thought: from the window to the quiet place where "no creature dwelleth," and in Patmore's phrase "the night of thought becomes the light of perception." This fringe-region or foreconscious is in fact the organ of contemplation, as the realistic outward looking mind is the organ of action.
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