Excerpt from The English Soul
"Parle-nous de ses choses.
Mais je n'y entends goutte.
Parles-en d'autant plus! A force d'expliquer ce que
tu ignores, peut-etre enfin le comprendras-tu."
Journeying in a motor-car through a foreign country is calculated to give the traveller false impressions. Speed distorts his vision. It disorganizes the lines of the landscape, lending him a wrong notion of its proportions. It disguises the relation and the distance between one thing and the next, and even misleads him as to the traits of salient objects. The effect of perspective shuts in the far-off scene, though it lie fair and open on all sides; a group of trees crowning a hill may leave with him the memory of a forest. Again, the traveller is deluded by his immediate sensations. Seen from the hot and dusty road, how exquisite seems the freshness of the smallest green hollow! On the face of each passcr-by he reads his own cares and joys, and imparts to each scene the colour of his own soul. So the process of self-deception goes on. And, after all, what harm has been done? The traveller thinks he has seen!
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