The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 95
fig. 7. is as big as its own house, which now, at a dis-tance, in turn looks smaller. Gradually it makesits way from the known to the unknown, usingits own experiences as stepping-stones. The eye … FIG. 8. light from darkness; then it learns to recognize knows no such thing as size or distance in theits mother, then its father; then it learns, per- abstract and apart from reasoning, but knowing TRICKS AND MAGIC 81 one by experience, it can make a close estimateof the other. The average woman…
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