THE EYES WERE IMPLANTED IN MAN BY DIVINE FORESIGHT.

1. When the (higher) Divinity, or (some lower) divinity,[66] sent

souls down into generation, He gave to the face of man eyes suitable

to enlighten him,[67] and placed in the body the other organs suited

to the senses, foreseeing that (a living organism) would be able to

preserve itself only on condition of seeing, hearing and touching

contiguous objects, to enable it to select some, and to avoid others.

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