...Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria (1817) describes the imagination as a power that "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate;...all events it struggles to idealize and to unify." The contrasting power to the imagination is, for Coleridge, the fancy, which "receive[s] all its materials...

...Imagination," an "echo" of the primary, develops the transformative implications of consciousness. "It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate;...yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead."18...

...primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate;...still, at all events, it struggles to idealize and unify.' In Smith's terms the primary imagination would seem to be the prerogative of Spirit, and the...

...dissipates, in order to re-create; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still, at all event, it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects1 are essentially fixed and dead. Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with...