But of course every well-brought-up person to-day knows that the Victorians were sentimentalists, nostalgics, escapists, self-deceivers.

In durance vile here must I wake and weep

But we are better grokkers than we realize. In every new situation, your First Brain receives thousands of cues that are registered at the preconscious level. You form impressions of people and situations, and you call it intuition.

The Inhabitants most simple, and treated them with great affection. Of Colour more inclined to white, of Body strong and comly, lank Hair, and long Beards, their Cloaths of very fine Mats […]