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                                                                          Sight.	What a singular instance of human folly that question
                                                                      why we do not see two imges with our two eyes, is;  pre-
                                                                      cisely the same as asking why we do not hear two sounds
                                                                      with our two ears.
                                                                      The information respecting the condition of a thing may
                                                                      be conveyed to the brain by any number of channels.  We
                                                                      might see a thing with a hundred eyes at the same moment;
                                                                      and all convey to us only the more distinctly their
                                                                      concrurrent evidence that it was but one thing.  But if, as
                                                                      by distorting the eye - or looking beyond the object -
                                                                      the two eyes see the same thing in a different place we
                                                                      immediately suppose it double or know ourselves deceived.
                                                                      And those conditions of the object which depend partly
                                                                      on human organism may be seen differently by each eye, as
                                                                      colour, and the united report be intermediate.
                                                                         Padua 7th March:  How curious the return in the Renaissance time to
                                                                      the earliest types - not only as we have seen in the rich
                                                                      ornament of vineleaves etc at Scala de San Rocco, but in
                                                                      the Italian window itself;  the circle between two rounds;
                                                                      there, and in the Vendranism Caleighi &c - while here,
                                                                      opposite me I have the very same form in the line of choice
                                                                      chapels of St Antonio, and of course it is the first form
                                                                      everywhere;  the pierced

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