The eye only sees that which it brings within the power of
seeing; and all I shall say of him is, that a certain apparition in
white leathers was at one period of its appearance dimly conscious of
equestrian motion towards a certain brown two-horned phenomenon, and
other spotted phenomena, at which he had been taught by habit to make
the articulate noises "stag" and "hounds," among certain grey, and
green, and brown phenomena, at which the same habit and the example
of his fellows had taught him to say, "Rock, and wood, and mountain,"
and perhaps the further noises of "Lovely, splendid, majestic."'
'As usual, sir! You dwellers in Babylon fancy that you have the
monopoly of all the intellect, and all the taste, because you earn
your livings by talking about pretty things, and painting pretty
things: little do you suspect, shut up together in your little
literary worlds, and your artistic worlds, how many thousands of us
outside barbarians there are who see as clearly, and enjoy as deeply
as you do: but hold their tongues about their own feelings, simply
because they have never been driven by emptiness of pocket to look
round for methods of expressing them.
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