Of late especially one may indeed believe that it is not worth pursuing any such enquiry because, just as it was for a while the fashion to say all things bad about the imagination, then about memory, it became in philosophy the habit some time ago, and is still the habit now, to heap every kind of defamation on the concept, to hold it in contempt the concept which is the highest form of thought while the incomprehensible and the non comprehended are regarded as the pinnacle of both science and morality.