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Updated: June 20, 2025
In view of this half-sight of science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that, "poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
If it hadn't been for my rhoomatics, which I got in the war, I'd 'a followed her. As it was, I couldn't." "So you didn't see her face, after all?" asked Barrant quickly. "I didn't, in a manner of speakin'. But I did get a glimpse of her as she passed near the lamp-post just a half-sight of two big dark eyes in a white face as she went past. I wouldn't 'a thought no more of it," added Mr.
He would not afflict her with that miasma of doubts and fears which had sickened him. "I didn't expect you till to-morrow afternoon." "I got tired of staying in town," she said. "There was no use. I wasn't getting any better, and I got so I didn't care. I began to feel that it was better to be here with you blind, than alone in town with that tantalizing half-sight of everything.
Of course when I had my head above water again I turned towards the tide, and my eyes naturally sought for the bridge, and so utterly astonished was I by what I saw, that I forgot to strike out, and went spluttering under water again, and when I came up made straight for the boat; for I felt that I must ask some questions of my waterman, so bewildering had been the half-sight I had seen from the face of the river with the water hardly out of my eyes; though by this time I was quit of the slumbrous and dizzy feeling, and was wide-awake and clear-headed.
When the cat kills the bird, as I have seen happen so often in our poor little London garden, God yet saves his bird from his cat. There is nothing so bad as it looks to our half-sight, our blinding perceptions. My father used to say we are all walking in a spiritual twilight, and are all more or less affected with twilight blindness, as some people are physically.
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