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If one has lived ever on a large plain –
how could you give him an idea of a
lofty mountain?

If one had never seen a city; how would
you represent it to him?

A rose – a comet – a picture – a temple –
(California must be seen)

Till we see a visible object for
ourselves – we can have but very
imperfect coceptions [conceptions] about it.

What we see we may conceive vivid notions
of – then forms become ineffaceble [ineffaceable].

Nobody forgets the forms of what
he has looked on.

Old forms, modified, become the
shapes of new things, heard about,
as we represent them to ourselves.