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fol. 36r    [fol. 35v, NG letter] 'Truth not easily Discerned'  (Pt II, Sn I, Ch II)  (3.141-42)
      
      
      
     #39#< told them by Locke. "This is certain   Page 81 . 3  down to . <there is no
     perception> {no sound is heard ."}
     <*.*>   And what is here said of the ear - <is> {and all must feel by their own
     		       experience to be true} doubly is of the eyes . for this
     reason .  that the ear is not accustomed to exercise constantly its functions of
     hearing  ,   it is accustomed to stillness  , and the occurrence of a sound of
 5   any kind whatsoever , is apt to awake attention and be followed with
     perception -  {in proportion to the degree of sound}  but the eye during our waking
     hours - exercises for ever.
     its function of seeing -  it is its constant habit - we always see something
     and we always see in the same degree -  so that the occurrence of
     sight - as such, to the eye - i<n>s only the continuance of its necessary state
10   of action -  and awakes no attention whatsoever except by the particular
     nature & quality of the sight  .   And unless the minds of men are thus
     particularly directed to the impressions of sight . the<y>se flit constantly before
     the eyes without conveying any impression to the brain atall [sic] *(<granting
     what is not always the case, that there be any to receive it>) and so pass
15   actually unseen - not merely unnoticed - byut [sic] in the full - clear sense of
     the word - unseen .   And <the majority> {<a> numbers} of men being preoccupied
     with
     business or thought or care of some description , totally unconnected
     with the impressions of sight - such is actually the case with them - they
     receiving from nature just so much of external sensual impression as
20   is necessarily <received by> {impressed upon} them in common with brute animals -
     of
     blueness - redness - light &c. - and - except at particular and rare moments
     no more whatsoever . >
      

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