BEHIND THE EYE. 



As what he sees is, so have his thoughts been. MAT- 

 THEW ARNOLD. 



NOTHING is seen until it is separated 

 from its surroundings. A man looks at the 

 landscape, but the tree standing in the mid- 

 dle of the landscape he does not see until, 

 for the instant at least, he singles it out as 

 the object of vision. Two men walk the 

 same road ; as far as the bystander can per- 

 ceive, they have before them the same 

 sights ; but let them be questioned at the 

 end of the journey, and it will appear that 

 one man saw one set of objects, and his 

 companion another ; and the more diverse 

 the intellectual training and habits of the 

 two travelers, the greater will be the dis- 

 crepancy between the two reports. 



And what is true of any two men is 

 equally true of any one man at two different 

 times. To-day he is in a dreamy, reflective 

 mood, he has been reading Wordsworth, 



