AS TO OURSELVES 



objects which it does not see, because the 

 eye in us falls so far short of our faculty 

 of sight itself that we have to make up 

 its deficiencies in all directions. And so 

 with the other senses. In man there is 

 no correspondence between faculty and 

 instrument. Something more, and again 

 more, is the persistent demand of the 

 personality within, when comparing the 

 boundless range of faculty with the vex- 

 atious littleness of range in the bodily 

 senses. Nothing of the kind is found in 

 other animals, for they are as content with 

 their sense organs as the ass is with an 

 ass's diet. They never think of going be- 

 yond their bodily senses. But in man 

 such an equipment of faculties, with such 

 poor provision for their exercise, is like 

 finding on a canal boat engines which 

 originally must have been meant for a 

 steamer which would traverse the widest 

 oceans. 



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