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Pleasant Words from the Gospel

All its components need to function together and perfectly if the eye is
to see at all.

The brain is insulated from light. That means that its inside
is completely dark, and that no light reaches the place where it
is located. Thus, the "center of vision" is never touched by light
and may even be the darkest place you have ever known. How-
ever, you observe a luminous, bright world in this pitch dark-
ness.
The image formed in the eye is so sharp and distinct that
even the technology of the twentieth century has not been
able to attain it. For instance, look at the book you are reading,
your hands with which you are holding it, and then lift your

head and look around you. Have you ever seen such a sharp
and distinct image as this one at any other place? Even the most
developed television screen produced by the greatest television
producer in the world cannot provide such a sharp image for
you. This is a three-dimensional, colored, and extremely sharp
image. For more than 100 years, thousands of engineers have
been trying to achieve this sharpness. Factories, huge premises
were established, much research has been done and plans have

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