From this interest results, moreover, careful attention, and from this latter, facility in the reproductive imagination.

The old psychology treated of the Reproductive Imagination, which simply reproduces the images that the mind has in any way acquired, and the Productive Imagination which modifies and combines mental images so as to produce what is virtually new.

What name is now preferably given to the so-called Reproductive Imagination by President Porter and others?

These two stages do not go beyond memory pure and simple, i.e., reproductive imagination.

It should, however, be noted that what has just been said does not take us beyond the reproductive imagination—beyond memory.