s 6 o Mr. Bew on Blindnefs* 
tions of matter to the mind; yet the compre- 
henfivenefs, together with the inftantaneous cele¬ 
rity, with which vifion difplays to us the won¬ 
ders of Nature, or the varieties of Art, far tran- 
fcend any of the perceptions, that the touch, or 
the other fenfes are able to furnilh us with. It 
is, perhaps, on this account, that we figuratively 
employ the term, feeing, in acknowledging the 
confcious evidence of reafon and truth ; and even 
extend the application, as the mod exprefiive, 
to one of the diftinguilhing attributes of Al¬ 
mighty perfection. 
In no part of the human fabric, or even 
throughout the whole of nature, with which we 
are acquainted, are there more evident marks 
of exquifite perfection and wifdom, than in what 
relates to the fenfe of feeing ■, whether we direct: 
our attention to the wonderful regularity, order, 
minutenefs, and velocity of the rays of light, 
which minifter to this fenfe, or to the ftructure 
and formation of the little organ, in which this 
faculty is deftined to refide. “With a ball and 
“ locket, (as a learned and elegant Philofopher,* 
“ beautifully obferves) of an inch diameter, we 
“ are enabled, in an inftant of time, without 
“ changing our place, to perceive the difpofition 
“ of an army, the figure of a palace, and the 
“ variety of a landfcape j” and not only, as he 
farther remarks, to “ find our way through the 
* Dr. Reid, p. 121. 
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