It is only when _she is told_ that such persons or such things are present that her prejudice declares itself.

In what state of mind does such a strange feeling as this take its rise?
It seems impossible that she can have any conscious associations with colors, pleasant or painful--if it is true that she was blind at a year old.

How do you account for it?
Can there be such a thing as a purely instinctive antipathy; remaining passive until external influences rouse it; and resting on no sort of practical experience whatever ?" "I think there may be," I replied.

"Why, when I was a child just able to walk, did I shrink away from the first dog I saw who barked at me?
I could not have known, at that age, either by experience or teaching, that a dog's bark is sometimes the prelude to a dog's bite.

My terror, on that occasion, was purely instinctive surely ?" "Ingeniously put," he said.