The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
Source: The Art of Fiction, (1884; repr. in Partial Portraits, 1888).
-- Henry James, Jr, (Apr 15 1843-1916), English author; He was a master of the psychological novel and innocents abroad motifs, e.g., The Portrait of a Lady, 1881.