Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 33
ame appears to be actually taller than that ofthe small boy who is peeping through the knot-hole, but in reality it is a little shorter. Theillusion is due to the fact that we judge of sizealways by comparison. The eye sees the figureof the boy larger than that of the man, as itreally is ; but the… … We see everything, in short, by the light ofexperience alone. New-born babies, while theyhave eyes, see not. The eye is a camera pureand simple, and, until its impressions can bedeveloped in the consciousness, what it seesmeans nothing. The baby first learns to dis-tinguish light from darkness;…
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