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And, to be sure, will not that be the most advantageous of which each of the senses has the greatest proportion? Do you not perceive, then, that there is no one of the senses which uses moisture by itself without an admixture of air or fire; and that every sense partakes of fire inasmuch as it supplies the vital energy; and especially that sight, the keenest of the physical senses, Cf. Plato, Phaedrus, 250 d; cf. Mor. 654 d-e, 681 e. is an ignited mass of fire Cf. von Arnim, S.V.F. ii, pp. 196, 199; but Post believes the words may mean a chain of fire linking the eye with its object. and is that which has made us believeIt is the visible heavens and their fire that make us believe by declaring the glory of the celestial gods. See A. S. Pease, Caeli Enarrant, Harvard Theological Review, xxxiv (1941), pp. 163-200. in the gods? And further, through sight, as Plato Timaeus, 47 a-b. says, we are able to conform our souls to the movements of the celestial bodies.
