Down such a vista and over such a foreground rises the Taj.

There is no mystery, no sense of partial failure about the Taj.

A thing of perfect beauty and of absolute finish in every detail, it might pass for the work of genii who knew naught of the weaknesses and ills with which mankind are beset." All of these details are true.

But, taken together, they state a falsehood--to you.

You cannot add them up correctly.