| Show experience of a man who was Vs nine 1 in a dark floom boom the human eye though trained to distinguish colors may by want of use forget how to distinguish distingue h them the unique experience of dr IL E harley F IL S related in the london spectator establishes the fact that color can be forgotten as well as learned by hum human sight gh dr harley in order to save cave the sight eight of one perhaps of both eyes eye when one was injured voluntarily himself in a room made totally dark for amne nine months the fortitude which enabled him to adopt this course and the ingenuity by which he preserved his health and fac ullies in this the most mentally and physically depressing of all forms of 0 imprisonment are sufficiently remark ble but dr harvey also kept an ac curate record of his impressions when he at last looked again upon tle light after the supreme moment at ab which he satisfied himself that he was not blind but could see lie he found that in tha th nine non months f darkness his eyes had lost all sensa of color tho world was black white anduray and gray they had bad also lost the sense of distance his brain braai interpreted the picture wrongly his hand lid did not touch the object meant to be grasped practice soon remedied the last induced defect of sight experiment with skeins of various colored wool in the presence of one who had normal color vision restored resto the first ant |
