The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 95
s it really is; but the manbeing represented farther away, the mind drawsthe conclusion that he must be the taller, for ourdaily experience is that distant objects must belarger than near ones having the same angle ofextent. We see everything, in short, by the light ofexperience alone. New-born… … fig. 4. FIG. 5. FIG. 6. and far objects. It looks at the nearest housedown the street and takes it to be of about thesize of its Noahs ark, for so it appears to be.Later it goes to that house and discovers that it
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