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  1. Sep 2024
    1. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly{b} imaginative never otherwise than{c} analytic.

      I've never doubted the similarity between being fanciful and imaginative, yet it seems that imagination is often grounded in logical understanding while fancy is associated with whimsical thinking. True genius lies in the combination of imagination and analytic ability.