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he is

an “eye among the blind,”
“On whom those thoughts do rest
That we are toiling all our lives to find.”
But as he grows up, he loses this faculty;
and all through his childhood he has been
stuffed with such a pack of lies, which parents
are accustomed to think are the most wholesome
food for the child,— because they
do not think of his future,— that he begins
real life with the utmost contempt for all
the ideas of his childhood; and the great truth
of the immanent power of thought in the
universe is flung away along with the
lies. I offer this hypothetical explanation
because, if the common aversion to regarding