Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 33
d in the consciousness, what it seesmeans nothing. The baby first learns to dis-tinguish light from darkness; then it learns torecognize its mother, then its father; then itlearns, perhaps, to distinguish some bright color,red it may be ; then it learns to discriminate be-tween near and far… … which now, at a distance, in turn looks smaller.Gradually it makes its way from the known tothe unknown, using its own experiences as step-ping-stones. The eye knows no such thing as 1901.] QUEER ERRORS OF THE EYE. I I size or distance in the abstract and apart fromreasoning, but knowing one by…
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