Chapter 16

THE COMMERCIAL IMAGINATION.

Its internal and external conditions.--Two classes of creators--the cautious, the daring.--The initial moment of invention.--The importance of the intuitive mind.--Hypotheses in regard to its psychologic nature.--Its development: the creation of increasingly more simple processes of substitution.--Characters in common with the forms of creation already studied.--Characters peculiar to it--the combining imagination of the tactician; it is a form of war.--Creative intoxication.--Exclusive use of schematic representations.--Remarks on the various types of images.--The creators of great financial systems.--Brief remarks on the military imagination. 281