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begot
to stand in a proportion1 with itself: as the good is
in the intelligible region to reason and the objects of reason, so is this
in the visible world to vision and the objects of vision.”
“How is that?” he said; “explain
further.” “You are aware,” I said,
“that when the eyes are no longer turned upon objects upon whose
colors the light of day falls but that of the dim luminaries of night, their
edge is blunted and they appear almost blind, as if pure vision did not
dwell in them.” “Yes, indeed,” he said.
“But when, I take it,
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