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and some creatures can thrust out their eyesto a distance from their head: and there i?

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The confinement of the foul therefore to a dark room*makes all this art and address neceflary; and yet we insetfrom thence, that the foul could not perceive externalmaterial objects at all, unless it were thus confined, andstill carried a kind of camera oscura about with it, andsurrounding it! And if this is the art to make confinementand darkness consistent with perception of external ob'jects; nothing can be more preposterous and unreason*"hie, than to imagine from thence, that darkness and con'finement arc necejsary to the perception of these-, prrathctithat this darkness, this confinement, and this art, are th?things which effect perception in the foul. And I am so r ?they imagine thus who tell us so often, §>uinque ut op 1nor earn faciendum ejl sensibus auctam. The perceptionis living Being cannot be owing to limitation and confin c 'ment, nor depend on the helps that are necessary, wh e)1it is thus shut up and limited. No man can m aintai 11this, without being soon reduced to grievous contr*"dictions; agreeably to what has been said before.

Hence therefore, as was asserted, the eye only Iinso*the perception of the foul, or permits it on one fide, b/communicating motion only from one hand. And th®reasoning is the fame with respect to the otherfense ; they only convey the motions of whichis percipient; but for wife reasons these motions are >ss"peded, except only through these avenues. And th llSthey bound in the natural perceptivity of the soul, otherwife extensive and unconfined. Hence the materialo*gaw »re (as the word imports] the instruments only

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the soul