Other words which seem to be connected with the same trend of thought are those that confine themselves to expressing a sense of the worth and dignity of man, _as_ man, and irrespective of his cosmic connections. Such are _humanism_,[66] _humanitarian_,[66] _humanitarianism_, _individualism_, _individualist_, _individualistic_, and many of the _self_ words, such as Carlyle’s _self-help_, or the semantic change of _self-respect_, which is first recorded as used with a praiseworthy meaning in Wordsworth’s _Prelude_. Now the consciousness of the absolute value and infinite potentiality of each human soul is revealed, as we saw, by the words in which it first began to take verbal form, as having been essentially an attribute of Christianity. Yet how differently these nineteenth-century words sound from the Christian vocabulary of the human and social virtues—_charity_, _lovingkindness_, _mercy_, _pity_, and the like! The modern words seem to be related to these glowing old Christian terms as the unemphasized, because unquestioned, mutual affection of a happy couple is related to the voluble ardours of courting. They preserve, we may say—they have even greatly developed—that divine sense of the value and autonomy of each individual human soul. But it is now more of a _political_ autonomy. It is as though they respected it rather from a manly sense of obligation, and the sense of obligation is even extended, as we see in the later semantic development of _humane_, _humanity_, and _humanitarian_, to the brutes. Thus, if the one outlook is indeed a lineal descendant of the other, we are constrained to ask a little sadly what had become of a certain sunny element, a suppressed poetic energy, a wonder and a wild surprise, which lurks in the former words, but somehow—with all our respect for them—not in the latter. And for light upon this question we must turn to yet another group of words—small, yet of such far-reaching implications as to demand a final chapter to themselves. CHAPTER XI IMAGINATION _Art._ _Fiction._ _Creative._ _Genius._ _Romantic._ _Fancy._ _Imagination._ _Dream._