given it, is the disguise and false colours in which many things appear to us in this present imperfect state. There are a thousand things which are not in reality what they appear to be, and that both in the natural and the moral world: so the sun appears to be flat as a plate of silver, and to be less than twelve inches in diameter: the moon appears to be as big as the sun, and the rainbow appears to be a large substantial arch in the sky; all which are in reality gross falsehoods. So knavery puts