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But now as for the senses that are created within
the body, such as are of celestial and heavenly extraction,
and which by divine assistance affect the understanding of
men by means of harmony,—namely, sight and hearing,—
do by the very light and voice express harmony. And others
which are their attendants, so far as they are senses, likewise exist by harmony; for they perform none of their
effects without harmony; and although they are inferior
to the other two, they are not independent of them. Nay,
those two also, since they enter into human bodies at
the very same time with God himself, claim by reason a
vigorous and incomparable nature.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 1.
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