. A collection of several philosophical writings of Dr. Henry More. s infinitely more conceivable, then that fomc part of Matter in my Head fhould feel pain by a prick in my finger, that Mattel in my Head being not at all incommodated, if fo much as in the leaft meafure moved thereby •, and yet that Perception is within the Head alone, has been abundantly demonftrated. 9. Liflly, unlefs the very EfTenceoftheSoul reach from the Com-mon Senfonum to the Bye, there will be very great difficHlties how therefliould be fo diitind a reprefentation of any vifible Objcft. For it is veryhard to conceive
. A collection of several philosophical writings of Dr. Henry More. s infinitely more conceivable, then that fomc part of Matter in my Head fhould feel pain by a prick in my finger, that Mattel in my Head being not at all incommodated, if fo much as in the leaft meafure moved thereby •, and yet that Perception is within the Head alone, has been abundantly demonftrated. 9. Liflly, unlefs the very EfTenceoftheSoul reach from the Com-mon Senfonum to the Bye, there will be very great difficHlties how therefliould be fo diitind a reprefentation of any vifible Objcft. For it is veryhard to conceive that the Colours will not be confounded, and the big-nefs of the ObjeiS diminifhed, and indeed that the image will not bequite lofl before it can come to the Soul, if it be onely in the CommonSenfonum. For it is plain, and Experience will demonftrate, that thereis a very perfed Imageof the Objedf inthebottomeof theEye, whichis made by the decuflation of the lines of Motion from it, thus: TheLine A B from the Objed: A C bears againft that point in the bottome of. Chap. X. The Immortality of the Soul. I05 of the Eye in B, and the lineC D againft the point D ; whereby C andA are felt in their place, and in fuch a diftance as they are in the Obje^: . C A : and fo of all the lines B ^y^ which come from the Ob- jeft C A into the bottomcof the Eye B 1), Fromwhence the is felt infuch a length and breadth asit is capable of being per-ceived in at fucli a diftancefrom the Eye. And as tlieMotion that is conveyed from A to B and from C to D is felt there 5 fothe modification of it, whereby the Objed in thofe parts miy feem red,yellow, green, or any other colour, is felt there alfo. Whence it is plainthat there will bean exquifiteimpreflion, according to all circumftancesoftheObje<a,inthebottomeofthe Eye: fo that if the Soul receiveicthere, and convey it thence to her Centre of Percepion intirely in the famecircumftances, the reprefentation will becompleat. Butifthe Soul be not
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