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fol. 33r    [fol. 32v, NG letter] 'Truth not easily Discerned' ' (Pt II, Sn I, Ch II)  (3.140-41)
      
      
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     so with respect to science in general - they do not argue with a meteorologist
     about the forms of clouds - nor contradict a botanist in his assertion
     of the form of a leaf - and yet they will come before a painting - every
     touch of which involves sciences by half a dozen at a time - and
 5   think themselves qualified to judge of its truth by instinct .  But nature
     never throws herself open to the inattentive eye. -  to those who do not seek
     for her ^ {truth} as for hid treasure  -  she shows only what she shows to dogs & to
     beetles  -  that trees are green and skies blue -   Every one of
     her important truths  -  of her real <g>beauties -  she will keep secret
10   & veiled - until she bestows them in reward for labour  -   <And>
     It<s> is humiliat<ed>ing  as well as extraordinary . to observe how much
     may pass hourly before <eyes untrained to see> - our eyes & senses - if
     <and leave no more knowledge of in the>  {untrained to attention & observation}
     								     giving no knowledge
     & leaving no trace  .   Men then come to be punished, says Locke &c.
15   Page 53.     A confused idea indeed -  and the more confused - according
     to the number of objects seen -  For as seeing many things will to
     ^ {in} an attentive ^ {man} increase his knowledge - in an inattentive man it
     will destroy it altogether . by rendering the animal ^ {habits of} impression<s> on
     which alone he depends . confused among each other .   Ask a traveller
20   who has run over all Europe - the shape of the leaf of an elm . and
     the chances are 90 to one he will not tell you .  and yet he will be
     ready with his criticism on .every painting landscape from Dresden to Madrid .
      

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