(Audit the account, and do not let me give you a false statement of the debt.) You remember our old distinction of the many beautiful and the one beautiful, the particular and the universal, the objects of sight and the objects of thought?
Did you ever consider that the objects of sight imply a faculty of sight which is the most complex and costly of our senses, requiring not only objects of sense, but also a medium, which is light; without which the sight will not distinguish between colours and all will be a blank?
For light is the noble bond between the perceiving faculty and the thing perceived, and the god who gives us light is the sun, who is the eye of the day, but is not to be confounded with the eye of man.

This eye of the day or sun is what I call the child of the good, standing in the same relation to the visible world as the good to the intellectual.

When the sun shines the eye sees, and in the intellectual world where truth is, there is sight and light.

Now that which is the sun of intelligent natures, is the idea of good, the cause of knowledge and truth, yet other and fairer than they are, and standing in the same relation to them in which the sun stands to light.

O inconceivable height of beauty, which is above knowledge and above truth! ('You cannot surely mean pleasure,' he said.