The Perception of Character one of our Finest Feelings––Here is another aspect of the feelings, of very great importance to us who have the education of children.
’I do not like you, Doctor Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell,’
is a feeling we all know well enough, and is, in fact, that intuitive perception of character––one of our finest feelings and best guides in life––which is too apt to be hammered out of us by the constant effort to beat down our sensibilities to the explicit and definite. One wonders why people complain of faithless friends, untrustworthy servants, and disappointed affections. If the feelings were retained in truth and simplicity, there is little doubt that they would afford for each of us such a touchstone of character in the persons we come in contact with, that we should be saved from making exigeant demands on the one hand, and from suffering disappointment on the other.