But in order to conceive still more vividly the confusions and pains of children at birth, and the injury their imaginations must suffer, let us represent to ourselves the surprise of a man who saw that he was being approached by giants five or six times taller than himself who gave no indication of their intentions; or at seeing some new species of animal, which had no relation to those he had previously seen; or how he would react if a flying horse or some other chimera suddenly came down from the clouds to earth.