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Lastly, that is to be thought most profitable, of
which the temperament of the senses participates most.
Now do you find that there is any of the senses, which of
itself makes use of moisture without an intermixture of air
and fire? But every sense partakes of fire, as being that
which quickens the vital faculty; more especially the sight,
which is the most acute of all the senses in the body, being
a certain fiery efflux, that gave us our first light into the
belief of a Deity, and by virtue of which we are able, as
Plato says, to conform our souls to the motions of the
celestial bodies.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.
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