In this connexion, however, it is of note that were we to play a trick on our lover of the beautiful, and plant in the ground artificial ﬂowers (which can be made so as to look just like natural ones), and perch artfully carved birds on the branches of trees, and he were to find out how he had been deceived, the immediate interest which these things previously had for him would at once vanish though, perhaps, a different interest might intervene in its stead, that, namely, of vanity in decorating his room with them for the eyes of others.