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the other senses in their immediate and individual action, 

 yet if they add nothing further to their information they 

 are not apposite to our present purpose, and we have there 

 fore said nothing of them. 



XL. In the seventeenth rank of prerogative instances 

 we will place citing instances (to borrow a term from the 

 tribunals), because they cite those things to appear, which 

 have not yet appeared. We are wont also to call them in 

 voking instances, and their property is that of reducing to 

 the sphere of the senses objects which do not immediately 

 fall within it. 



Objects escape the senses either from their distance, or 

 the intervention of other bodies, or because they are not 

 calculated to make an impression upon the senses, or be 

 cause they are not in sufficient quantity to strike the senses, 

 or because there is not sufficient time for their acting upon 

 the senses, or because the impression is too violent, or 

 because the senses are previously filled and possessed by 

 the object, so as to leave no room for any new motion. 

 These remarks apply principally to sight, and next to 

 touch, which two senses act extensively in giving informa 

 tion, and that too upon general objects, while the remaining 

 three inform us only, as it were, by their immediate action, 

 and as to specific objects. 



There can be no reduction to the sphere of the senses 

 in the first case, unless in the place of the object, which 

 cannot be perceived on account of the distance, there be 

 added or substituted some other object, which can excite 

 and strike the sense from a greater distance, as in the com 

 munication of intelligence by fires, bells, and the like. 



In the second case we effect this reduction by rendering 

 those things which are concealed by the interposition of 



