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that It is a very pleafant and lovely Objedl to be- 

 hold, if we confider the Figure, Colours, and 

 Splendc^ of it, is the leaft that I can fay. The 

 Soul, as it is more immediately and ftrongly mo- 

 ved and afFed;ed by this Part than any other, fo 

 doth it manifeft all its Paffions and Perturbations 

 by this. As the Eyes are the Windows to let in 

 the Species of all exterior Objedts into the dark 

 Cells of the Brain for the Information of the 

 Soul, fo are they flaming Torches to reveal to 

 thofe abroad how the Soul within is moved or 

 affeded. Thefe Reprefentations made by the 

 Impreffions of external Objeds upon the Eye arc 

 the moft clear, lively, and diftind: of any others. 

 Now to this Ufe and Purpofe of informing us 

 what is abroad round about us in this afpedable 

 World, we fhall find this Strufture and Mecha- 

 nifm of the Eye, and every Part thereof, fo well 

 fitted and adapted, as not the leaft Curiofity can 

 be added 5 for firft of all, the Humours and Tu- 

 nicles are purely tranfparent, to let in the Light 

 and Colours unfoiFd and unfophifticated by any 

 inward Tindure. It is ufually faid by the Peri^ 

 fateticksy that the cryftalline Humour of the Eye 

 (which they eneptly fancy'd to be the immediate 

 Organ of Vifion, wherein all the Species of ex- 

 ternal Objeds were terminated) is without all 

 Colour, becaufe its Office was to difcern all Co- 

 lours, or at leaft to receive the Species of fevcral 

 Colours, and convey them to the common Senfe. 

 . Now' if it felf had been coloured, it would have 

 tranfmitted all vifible Objeds tindur'd with the 



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