text:  "The prophetic eye of taste"--as a brilliant expression for that felicitous _prolepsis_ by which the painter or the sculptor sees already in its rudiments what will be the final result of his labours--is a phrase which we are all acquainted with and the spirit of prophecy the far-stretching vision of sagacity is analogously conspicuous in the arts of Government military or political when providing for the contingencies that may commence in pseudo-patriotism or the possibilities that may terminate in rebellion