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Did you ever consider that the objects of sight imply a faculty

of sight which is the most complex and costly of our senses,

requiring not only objects of sense, but also a medium, which is

light; without which the sight will not distinguish between

colours and all will be a blank? For light is the noble bond

between the perceiving faculty and the thing perceived, and the

god who gives us light is the sun, who is the eye of the day, but

is not to be confounded with the eye of man. This eye of the day

or sun is what I call the child of the good, standing in the same

relation to the visible world as the good to the intellectual.

When the sun shines the eye sees, and in the intellectual world

where truth is, there is sight and light. Now that which is the

sun of intelligent natures, is the idea of good, the cause of

knowledge and truth, yet other and fairer than they are, and

standing in the same relation to them in which the sun stands to

light.