Show What Our Readers Think in I Editors Editor's Note Co Contributors to What Readers Reader Think must sign their true names and end addresses although these will not be ba published if the tha writer re re- re quests Short letters will be given preference Idealism Is Essential To Constructive Realism Editor Telegram A writer recently recently recently re re- re- re ridiculed idealism and boasted of what he called real real- ism Without idealism the realities of life would be too harsh Without Without Without With With- out emotionalism intellectualism would be cold formal and cruel Unless one builds castles in inthe inthe the the air he will nev newer r build a substantial construction on terra firma Unless it can be proved that the fundamentals of idealism and emotionalism emanate from a diseased mental condition then it must be granted that they are necessary to perfect equilibrium equilibrium equilibrium equi equi- and stability If these traits were not necessary necessary necessary sary to our well being they would not be so persistently a characteristic of our nature Science nce and truth or fact are synonymous But theory precedes precedes precedes pre pre- cedes science The infants infant's first manifestation of life is emo emo- Strike your thumb with a hammer then without the least emotion try to arrive at a conclusion as to exactly why the contact of the hammer with your thumb caused pain Emotional suffering brings forth fortha a desire for scientific tion It never works The forethought of all inventive inventive inventive tive or constructive ingenuity is idealism Idealism is not superstition It is a mental conception of something imaginary Without imagination we would be fools To imagine means to devise to form a mental conception of but not necessarily false It is impossible to construct without first having formed an ideal of a reality An imaginary imaginary imaginary I nary portrayal precedes a visible visible visible vis vis- vis- vis ible representation Andrew A. A Van Brunt |