CHAPTER XVIII Of Moles, or Molls. That Moles are blind and have no eyes, though a common opinion, is received with much variety; some affirming only they have no sight, as _Oppianus_, the Proverb _Talpa Cæcior_, and the word σπαλαχία, or _Talpitas_, which in _Hesychius_ is made the same with _Cæcitas_: some that they have eyes, but no sight, as the text of _Aristotle_ seems to imply; some neither eyes nor sight, as _Albertus_, _Pliny_, and the vulgar opinion; some both eyes and sight, as _Scaliger_, _Aldrovandus_, and some others. Of which opinions the last with some restriction, is most consonant unto truth: for that they have eyes in their head is manifest unto any, that wants them not in his own: and are discoverable, not only in old ones, but as we have observed in young and naked conceptions, taken out of the belly of the Dam. And he that exactly enquires into the cavity of their cranies, may perhaps discover some propagation of nerves communicated unto these parts. But that the humours together with their coats are also distinct (though _Galen_ seem to affirm it) transcendeth our discovery; for separating these little Orbs, and including them in magnifying Glasses, we discerned no more then _Aristotle_ mentions, τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν μέλαινα, that is, a black humour, nor any more if they be broken. That therefore they have eyes we must of necessity affirm; but that they be comparatively incomplete we need not to deny: So _Galen_ affirms the parts of generation in women are imperfect, in respect of those of men, as the eyes of Moles in regard of other Animals; So _Aristotle_ terms them πηρουμένους, which _Gaza_ translates _Oblæsos_, and _Scaliger_ by a word of imperfection _inchoatos_.