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P. VI. Cartesius giveth you an instance of deception of sight: We think a square Tower of a Steeple to b• round till we come near it: And the water seemeth to us to move when it is the boat.

P. VI. Cartesius giveth you an instance of deception of sight: We think a square Tower of a Steeple to b• round till we come neer it: And the water seemeth to us to move when it is the boat.

R. Cartesius and you do seem to be Confederate, to put out the eye of nature, and tempt the world to Infidelity, if not to Atheism. 1. Nature tells us that a distant Steeple or other object, is not perfectly discernible and therefore Nature forbiddeth us to judge till w• come nearer. We speak only of objects duly situate an• qualified. 2. The failing of the sight there is but Negative: It discerneth not the corners: but here yo• feign it to be positive. 3. As the error is corrigibl• by nearer approach, so also by the use of other sense• ▪ If a man feel the Tower that is square, he will infallibly perceive it. But if you could prove that this square Tower is no Tower, no Stone, no Substance at all, though all the world should judge otherwise that see it at th• ⟨p. 93⟩meetest distance, and feel it with their hands, then you did something to the purpose. So as to the moving water or banks, 1. Motion is not so evident as substance. 2. Though one sense, through the weakness of the brain be insufficient, the Intellect by the same sense about other objects, and by other senses can infallibly discern what that one perceiveth not. 3. And if one mans eyes deceive him who is in the boat, ten thousand mens eyes that stand on the firm land, perceive the truth: But in our case it is all the senses of all the world, in all ages, about the nearest object, that agree.