The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.
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Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
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