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have been living in the midst of these beauties, will 

 take av/ay any distinct impression, any clear, strong 

 memories of the things they have seen ? 



Adelaide, You might carry your question farther 

 and ask how many of these people have really looked 

 at these things enough to have seen them at all. 

 And for those who do not see at all, as well as for 

 those who see only to forget, the glory and the 

 beauty are indeed quite passed away. 



The Wife^ Is it as bad as that ? You make the 

 case quite hopeless for those who have but just 

 begun to observe, who see but little, yet who are 

 growing in perception of nature and her beauties. 

 They may get but light impressions ; but are these 

 necessarily void ? May they not be the beginnings 

 of a deeper and more adequate appreciation of all 

 this beauty ? 



Adelaide, I am afraid I have not much hope for 

 those who are not endowed in the beginning with 

 some love of the beautiful in nature. No eyes, no 

 sight. No soul for beauty, no apprehension of it. 

 Think of all the people who have lived here for 

 years, yet who have no more sense of all this glori- 

 ous scenery, this light, this colour, this sky-prospect, 

 than the house-dog or the cows. 



The Dominie. But do you think they have no 

 capacity for beauty, or that they and their children 

 might not be led to a larger enjoyment of it, if only 

 they had a proper impulse and direction ? I should 

 be sorry to believe that there is anybody who is 



