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fol. 40v    'Truth not easily Discerned'  (Pt II, Sn I, Ch II)  (3.144-45)
      
      
      
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fol. 41r     'Truth not easily Discerned'  (Pt II, Sn I, Ch II)  (3.145-46)
      
      
      
     prove the extent of this error more completely hereafter  .
     Now .  be it observed - that all these difficulties would lie in the
     way - if the truths of nature were always the same - and constantly
     repeated & brought before us .   But the truths of nature are one
 5   eternal change - one infinite variety -  <There is no bush on the
     	face of the 24000 .   You may ride round the globe>  There is
     no bush in* the face of the globe exactly like another bush.    There are
     not two leaves <of> on the same tree of exactly the same form - so that
     one could not be told from another  .   There are <tw> no two trees in
10   the forest - whose boughs bend into the same network .   And out of
     this mass of unagreeing beauty - it is by long attention only that
     the conception of that constant character - that ideal form - which
     is hinted at by all - though assumed by none - is fixed upon the
     <memory> {imagination} for its standard of truth  .
15   It is not wonderful therefore -  nor in any way disgraceful - that
     the majority of Spectators [sic] are totally incapable of appreciating the
     truth of nature .  when fully <and> set before them - but it is both
     wonderful & disgraceful - that it is so difficult to convince them
     of their own incapability  .      Ask a man who has scampered over
20   {all} Europe - <from Dresden to Madrid> - the shape of the leaf of an elm -
     and it is ninety to one that he cannot tell you - and yet he will
     be voluble of criticism on every painted landscape from Dresden to Madrid  .
      

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