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 drama, and travel, and children look for them, and will not care for things of which they have had no vision.

It was very late in its history that the race wanted eye-instruments. For ages the human eye did its work unassisted save by rude glasses that could hardly be looked upon as eye instruments. Its rich associations with touch were developed by work, and also by modelling and drawing; but more remarkable than all this was the development of the vast psychic field that is the peculiar feature of human vision—the weaving of what was seen into dreams, visions, Utopias. No doubt it was well that projection was not hurried; and for the same reasons it would be well that it should not be hastened in childhood. When at last it came it was simple enough—and begun, one would say, by chance.