Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 34
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… … The average woman cannot judge how mucha foot is within several inches, but she can esti-mate a yard very closely, while with the averageman the case is reversed. If some one askedyou which was the longer, a horses head fromthe tip of his ears to the end of his nose, or anordinary flour-barrel, you…
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