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namely, the motion flill remaining in the organs of fenfe, after tlie fcn- 

 fation is gone * ; for, if that were the cafe, our moft recent fenfatione 

 would be always the fubjedl of our dreams ; which, though it be 

 fometimes the cafe, yet i appeal to every man's experience, whether 

 his dreams be not more commonly compofed of things that he has 

 neither perceived by his fenfes, nor thought of for a great v/hile before : 

 Neither do 1 think that, by the phantafia fingly, we can account 

 for dreams; for, though the phantafia undoubtedly contain, not only 

 recent perceptions of the fenfe, but very old ones, no reafon can be af- 

 figned why fuch or fuch objeds, rather than others, fliould be finglcd 

 out of that repofitory of phantafms, as I may call it, and prefented to 

 the mind. And^fdcondly-, we very often fee things in our dreams, that 

 we never faw or thought of before, and which, confequently, cannot 

 be in thephantafia. Thus, we fee perfons in our dreams entirely unknown 

 to us ; and they are reprefented to us in fo lively and diftind: a manner, 

 that, if we happen ever really to fee them, we know them immediately 

 for the perfons we had feen in our dreams ; and we hear of things 

 that we never heard of before, but which we afterwards find to be 

 realities. Of this kind, I have heard feveral {lories ; but there are 

 two recorded by Plutarch, the one in the life of Lucullus^ and the 

 other in the life of Powpey-, which I will relate as fa€ls, of the truth 

 of which I think there is no reafon to doubt. * Lucullus, v;hen he 

 was making war in Pontus againft Tigranes, took Sinope, a Greek 

 city, fituated upon the Euxine fea, which fome Ciiicians, fricnda of 

 the King, had taken poflefTion of; but, upon Lucullus coming before 

 it, fled in the night-time, having firft i'et fire to the city, and killed a * 

 great number of the Sinopians. Lucullus, however, made fuch hafte, 

 that he catched in the city, and put to the fword, 8000 of the Ciiici- 

 ans, who had not time to make their efcape ; but the city he fpared, 

 and. fuch of the inhabitants as had efcaped the cruelty of ihc barba- 

 rians. This he did, on account of a dream that he had the night 

 before, in which a man appeared to him, and bid him go on ; 

 " for," -fays he, '* Autolycus comes, deliring to meet with you." Lucul- 

 lus did not know what to make of this dream, never having heard of. 



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