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1 1| microscope, or by the naked eye?~HYL. By a microscope, doubtless.~ 2 1| it exhibits to the naked eye.~HYL. And what will you 3 1| they would appear to the eye in case it were naturally 4 1| happening in the burnouts of the eye, or a variation of distance, 5 1| different colours to the eye. The same thing happens 6 1| blue or red to the naked eye. And now tell me whether 7 1| texture and formation of the eye, what degree or kind of 8 1| therefore cannot act on the eye; nor consequently make itself 9 1| which, operating on the eye, occasions a perception 10 1| an object, because to one eye it shall seem little, smooth, 11 1| experiment, by looking with one eye bare, and with the other 12 1| line turned endwise to the eye?~HYL. It is.~PHIL. And can 13 1| not colours appear to the eye as coexisting in the same 14 2| stars that escape the naked eye. Here they seem contiguous 15 2| in the sight, or if the eye is not directed towards 16 3| discoverable to the naked eye?~PHIL. Strictly speaking, 17 3| microscope which was by the naked eye. But, in case every variation