The astronomer can see a star in the sky where to others the blue expanse is unbroken.

The shepherd can distinguish the face of every single sheep in his flock,' so Professor Wilson.

And then Dr.Gould tells us in his mystico-evolutionary, Behmen-and-Darwin book, _The Meaning and the Method of Life_--a book which those will read who can and ought--that the eye is the most psychical, the most spiritual, the most useful, and the most valued and cherished of all the senses; after which he adds this wonderful and heart-affecting scientific fact, that in death by starvation, every particle of fat in the body is auto-digested except the cream-cushion of the eye-ball! So true is it that the eye is the mistress, the queen, and the most precious, to Creator and creature alike, of all the five senses.
Now, in the _Holy War_ John Bunyan says a thing about the ear, as distinguished from the eye, that I cannot subscribe to in my own experience at any rate.

In describing the terrible war that raged round Ear-gate, and finally swept up through that gate and into the streets of the city, he says that the ear is the shortest and the surest road to the heart.

I confess I cannot think that to be the actual case.