held on 15 December 1903 for the British House of Commons
constituency
of Dulwich
in South London
.
The by-election was triggered by the death of the serving Conservative Party
Member of Parliament
(MP), Sir John Blundell Maple
.
The Unionist
(Conservative) candidate was Dr Frederick Rutherfoord Harris
, who had previously been elected MP for Monmouth Boroughs
in the 1900 general election
but was disqualified the next year as a result of an election petition alleging irregularities.
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. Men of bright fancies may in this respect be compared to those angels whom the scripture represents as covering their eyes with their wings.
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
The true function of logic,... as applied to matters of experience,... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed prima facie possible. Thus, while it liberates imagination as to what the world may be, it refuses to legislate as to what the world is.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
There is no life I knowthat compares to pure imaginationLiving there you'll be freeif you truly wish to be
Impossibility is only the figment of an insufficient imagination.