Show how to read blobs boobs la almost always worth while to read a twice over to make sure that notting has been massed or dropped on the way or wrongly conceived or interpreted and it the subject be serious it is often well to let an interval elapse ideas heuts of fact ara not to be taken by storm we have to steep them in the mind in the hope of thus extracting their inmost essence and significance if one lets an interval pass and then returns it is surprising how clear and ripe that ban become which when we left it seemed crude obscure and full ot perplexity all this takes trouble no doubt but it will not do to deal with ideas that we nod in boots or as a certain bird docs with its agas leave them in the sand for the sun to hatch and chance to rear people who follow this plan nothing better than ideas halt hatched an convictions reared by accident they arc liae a man who should pace up and down the world in the delusion that be is clad in sumptuous robes of purple and velvet truth he is only half covered by the rags and tatters of other peoples castoff cast off clothes john morley |