tage, that he
could go anywhere in the dark much better than those who could
see, and after he had seen he did not soon lose this quality nor
desire a light to go about the house in the night.

"A year after first seeing, being carried upon Epsom Downs and
observing a large prospect, he was exceedingly delighted with it
and called it a new kind of seeing; and now being lately couched
of his other eye, he says that objects at first appeared large
to this eye but not so large as they did at first to the other,
and, looking upon the same object with both eyes, he thought it
looked about twice as large as with the first couched eye only,
but not double, that we can anywise discover."

Remark on the First Case.

Although this Chesselden case is the most famous of all, and the most
frequently cited, it belongs, nevertheless, to those most inaccurately
described. It is, however, not only the first in the order of time, but
especially important for the reason that it demonstrates in a striking
manner the slow acquirement of space-perception by the eye, and also the
acquirement of the first and second dimensions of space (cf. vol. i, p.
57).

II., III. THE WARE CASES.

One of these cases is that of a boy, who at the age of seven years
recovered his sight which he had lost in the first half-year of his
life. The surgeon who performed the operation, James Ware, writes
("Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for 1801," ii,
London, 1801, pp. 382-396):

"The young W. appeared to be a healthy, perfect child; his eyes
in particular were large and rather prominent. About the end of
his first year, a number of persons passing in procession near
his father's house, accompanied with music and flags, the child
was taken to see them; but, instead of looking at the
procession, it was observed that, though he was evidently much
pleased with the music, his eyes were never directed to the
place from whence the sound came. His mother, alarmed by this
discovery, held silver spoons and other glaring objects before
him at different distances, and she was soon convinced that he
was unable to perceive any of them. A surgeon was consulted,
who, on examining the eyes, pronounced that there was a complete
cataract in each. All thoughts of assisting his sight were (for
the present) relinquished. As soon as he could speak it was
observ