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which it prefented could be larger than thofewhich lie had firft feen. He muit probably bythis time have been in fome degree habituated tothe connexion between vifible and tangible ob-jects, and enabled to conceive that vifible objeflto be fmall which reprefented a fmall tangibleobject; and that to be great, which reprefenteda great one. The great objects did noc appearto his Sight greater than the fmall ones had donebefore; but the fmall ones, which , having filledthe whole fphere of his vilion, had before ap-peared as large as poffible, being now known toreprefent much fmaller tangible objects, feemedin his conception to grow fmaller. He had be-gun now to employ his attention more about thetangible and reprefented, than about the vifibleand reprefenting objects; and he was beginningto afcribe to the latter, the proportions and di-menfions which properly belonged altogether tothe former.

As we frequently afcribe to the objects ofSight amagnitude and proportion which does not reallybelong to them, but to the objects of Touch whichthey reprefent, fo we likewife afcribe to them afteadinefs of appearance, which as little belongsto them, but which they derive altogether fromtheir connexion with the fame objecfs of Touch.The chair which now hands at the farther endof the roonx, I am apt to imagine appears tomy eye as large as it did when it flood clofe byme, when it was feen under angles at leaf! fourtimes larger than thofe under which it is feen at