It was of course by the imagination that this latter was quickened to an intensity thus akin to pain-but the imagination had doubtless at every turn, without exception, more to say to one's state of mind, and dealt more with the whole unfolding scene, than any other contributive force.
"Within the Rim and Other Essays"
Henry James
We were up to our necks in this relation before we could turn round, and what upwards of a year's experience of it has done in the contributive and enriching way may now well be imagined.
"Within the Rim and Other Essays"
Henry James
Professor James Harvey Robinson tells us that the modern mind is really a complex, that it contains and continues the whole of our inheritances and can be understood only through the analysis of all the contributive elements which have combined to make it what it is and that the inherited elements in it far outweigh more recent contributions.
"Modern Religious Cults and Movements"
Gaius Glenn Atkins