The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 97
are, level, and plumb-line. There are finebuildings in every city that have been made tosuffer in this way, for, though really well built, their walls appear to lean outward, or their cor-nices to sag in the middle, and so forth. These various instances point the moral thatour eyes do not by any… … T is an old and a wisesaying that seeing isbelieving, yet every-body knows that veryoften what we see,and therefore believe,proves to be not reallytrue at all. As wegrow older, findingthat our eyes have sofrequently deceivedus. we are often notsatisfied with the evidence they give us until wehave…
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