It is a misreading of the role of feelings to separate them from the function of mind at work! No matter how clear and penetrating and detached may be the vast reaches of creative thoughts at their best, they are but lifeless forms until they are energized by the continuum of emotion that is always present and antedates the emergence of mind. After all, it may be true that what is called “thought” is a function of feeling, reduced to slow motion.
