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Intelligence reeves the heavens of winged and frightful monsters - - drives ghosts and leering fiends from the darkness , and floods with light the dungeons of fear . And so true is this , that an eye shut up in total darkness , and probably an ear cut off from all sound , will finally die , or become an exterminated sense ; even as that whole tribe of fishes , discovered in the cave , are found to have no eyes . " He calls it a lamp because in reality it is all darkness , and light covers the darkness of the night , and if there be no lamp , man can get no advantage out of his sense of sight at nighttime ; and in the same way if there were no sun the animals can have no benefit of their sense of seeing . By help of these suggested amendments , Progress and Civilization in that country can have a boom , and it will take in the Persons who are Sitting in Darkness , and we can resume Business at the old stand . Thou needest not feel sorrow in thy heart , as thou liest in thy bonds , nor mourn in spirit that men should dwell in heaven above , while we now suffer misery and pain in realms of darkness , and through thy pride have lost our high estate in heaven and goodly dwellings .