Distance imparts a beauty or a halo to an object which otherwise is not an integral part of it. A rough painting or a rugged hill, when viewed from a distance, provides a charming spectacle. A closer sight or examination of either of the two may disillusion or disgust you. Distance, often, conceals the oddity and crudity of a thing from one’s sight. It transfers a new lustre, as it were, to objects and phenomena. “They are softened, rounded and rendered doubly graceful.” “There are mists, too, as in the natural horizon,, to Conceal is less pleasing in distant objects.