“…But this theory, unlike Hume's, allows for such constraints to be altogether surpassed by the cultivation of the imagination.' 57 Natarajan is right to contrast Hume's deflationary account of the 'faint and languid' perceptions of imagination (as thought recedes from sensation and memory) with the dynamic faculty, which, in Hazlitt's Essay, 'creates the object' of perception and 'pushes … ideas beyond the bounds of … memory and sense'. 58 Seen this way, Hazlitt's argument follows a familiar pattern of Romantic logic, whereby, as imagination is elevated and reason subordinated, philosophy's loss becomes art's gain.…”