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Falkland, but for the disturbance and inflammation of his mind, would be disposed to a similar communication. I shall interweave with Mr. Collins's story various information which I afterwards received from other quarters, that I may give all possible perspicuity to the series of events.
Apollonia was stating to Lothair, with perspicuity, the reasons which quite induced her to believe that the Gulf-Stream had changed its course, and the political and social consequences that might accrue. "The religious sentiment of the Southern races must be wonderfully affected by a more rigorous climate," said Apollonia.
It is because she fearlessly and resolutely insists upon all her children accepting the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, that she presents to the world, century after century, with miraculous clearness and perspicuity, the Divine hall-mark of unity. Outside the true Church of God there is no recognised voice strong enough to enforce any uniformity of belief.
I admire him because he is thoughtful and full of ideas, and can express himself faultlessly. Recently he gave me a lesson in sociology, touching the links between the France of to-day and the France of tradition, a lesson on our origins whose plain perspicuity was a revelation to me. I seek his company; I strive to imitate him, and certainly he is not aware how much influence he has over me.
But it is weakened by other imperfections. It is of great detriment to its perspicuity, that we are not at the very first allowed to hear the letter without superscription which occasions all the embarrassment, and that it is not sent off before our eyes.
But even all the reasons so far invoked the necessity for significance, the interest in unity, the demand for perspicuity do not, I think, suffice to explain the structure of works of art. For structure has, oftentimes, a direct emotional appeal, which has not yet been taken into account, and which is a leading motive for its presence. Consider, for example, symmetry.
"Thanks," said the visitor. Pugin would lend his purse to the cause, and his name, but he would not lend his pen simply because he could not. To every literary man there are dead subjects; this question was dead to the author of "Absolution" as uninspiring as cold mutton. "Thanks," said Adams, and rose to take his leave. His rough-hewn mind understood with marvellous perspicuity Pugin's position.
'MR. COPPERNOSE called the attention of the section to a proposition of great magnitude and interest, illustrated by a vast number of models, and stated with much clearness and perspicuity in a treatise entitled "Practical Suggestions on the necessity of providing some harmless and wholesome relaxation for the young noblemen of England."
With admirable perspicuity he shows how it is that our notions of primary qualities are formed; how the mind, by localising on distinct points of the sensory surface of the body its various, tactile sensations, obtains the idea of extension, or space in two dimensions, of figure, number, and motion: how the power, combined with consciousness of the power, of moving the hand in all directions over any substance it is in contact with, adds the idea of geometrical solidity, or of space in three dimensions: how the ideas thus formed with the aid of the sense of touch are confirmed by, and blended with, others derived from visual sensations and muscular movements of the eye: and, finally, how the idea of mechanical solidity, or impenetrability, arises from experience of resistance to our muscular exertions.
"So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?" I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity. "No, I do not," said I. "I thought not," she said, laughing. It must have been my expression which prompted her next remark. "I was not making fun of you," she said, more soberly; "I do not like Mr. Allen any better than you do, and I have only seen him once." "But I have not said I did not like him," I objected.
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