Consequently he hath his sight, and the use of it,
in as perfect a degree as you?
. I agree with you.
. Whence comes it then that your thoughts are directed
to the Roman emperor, and his are not? This cannot proceed from
the sensations or ideas of sense by you then perceived; since you
acknowledge you have no advantage over him in that respect. It
should seem therefore to proceed from reason and memory: should
it not?
. It should.
. Consequently, it will not follow from that instance
that anything is perceived by sense which is not, immediately
perceived. Though I grant we may, in one acceptation, be said to
perceive sensible things mediately by sense: that is, when, from
a frequently perceived connexion, the immediate perception of
ideas by one sense to the mind others, perhaps
belonging to another sense, which are wont to be connected with
them. For instance, when I hear a coach drive along the streets,
immediately I perceive only the sound; but, from the experience I
have had that such a sound is connected with a coach, I am said
to hear the coach.
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