... to nature, and to avoid what people commonly call the Ideal; for that, and beauty, and pathos, and success, all lie in the simply natural. We all preach it, from Wordsworth down, and we all, from Wordsworth down, don't practice it. Don't I feel it every day in this weary editorial mill of mine, that there are ten thousand people who can write ideal things for one who can see, and feel, and reproduce na...