This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... And here I leave this matter, for the contemplation of the Philosopher, and of every reflecting mind. And, if there be any enlightened person, who, upon being first introduced to this display of the power and wisdom of the Creator, as manifested in the contrivance of such a Mechanism, does not feel a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... And here I leave this matter, for the contemplation of the Philosopher, and of every reflecting mind. And, if there be any enlightened person, who, upon being first introduced to this display of the power and wisdom of the Creator, as manifested in the contrivance of such a Mechanism, does not feel a sentiment of a very peculiar sort; I must own myself a child, by confessing that it impressed me with such a feeling, in a very strong degree. I speak not with a moment's regard to my having had the accident of falling first upon the thing. But I speak the feeling which the Fact Of The Crossing forced upon me, in the opening of its aspect. Nor must I here omit to notice, also, the impression which the extreme beauty of the phenomena cannot fail to make, upon any mind that is ductile to a display of Nature: Their richness, and lustre, and symmetry, and varying change of correlative place, in an instantaneous obedience to every contrary pressure, exhibit, to an admirer of Nature, a display, --And A System, --as splendid, as it is wonderful. If Bishop Berkeley had fallen upon these Phenomena; and had beheld them, at his bidding, revolve round theeye, and round each other, like the bodies of our Planetary System; he would never have denied that a Being, endowed with Sight alone, might have learned not only the Science of Geometry, but that of Arithmetic Also, without any knowledge whatever of the existence of an external figured world. THE END. COLOR IMAGES IN THE BRAIN; Being an account of the detection of Visible Objects, seen posited on exchanged sides in the Brain, after the intromission of impressions of light, reflected from external objects, one in each eye: --a description of which facts formed the substance of a paper read to the Royal...
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