They saw Mercury, with its gleam of white light, and Mars, with its ruddy glow; they saw Regulus come out of the darkening blue on one side of the sun, Venus shimmer and Procyon twinkle near the horizon, and Arcturus shine down from the zenith.
"_We_ saw the giant shadow as it _left_ us and passed over the lands of the untutored Indian; _they_ saw it as it approached from the distant west, as it fell upon the peaks of the mountain-tops, and, in the impressive stillness, moved directly for our camping-ground.
"The savage, to whom it is the frowning of the Great Spirit, is awe-struck and alarmed; the scholar, to whom it is a token of the inviolability of law, is serious and reverent.
"There is a dialogue in some of the old school-readers, and perhaps in some of the new, between a tutor and his two pupils who had been out for a walk.

One pupil complained that the way was long, the road was dusty, and the scenery uninteresting; the other was full of delight at the beauties he had found in the same walk.

One had walked with his eyes intellectually closed; the other had opened his eyes wide to all the charms of nature.

In some respects we are all, at different times, like each of these boys: we shut our eyes to the enjoyments of nature, or we open them.

But we are capable of improving ourselves, even in the use of our eyes--we see most when we are most determined to see.