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The essay Should Scholars Try To Think? by Delancey Ferguson is a commentary on many things pertinent to the work of a scholar. It was written from Ferguson's perspective as a literary scholar, however this should not dissuade one from engaging with it. For buried amongst copious references to Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling and Walt Whitman is a thought-provoking discussion on the role that imagination, perhaps over-imagination, plays in scholarship.