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Difeafes— The Internal Organs, fuch as the Brain, not properly Caufes, any more 

 than the External— The Intellcilual Mind, not immediately conneaed at all with the 

 Body or its Organs— Hot and Cold, Moijl and Dry, no Caufes of Things— The con- 

 fidering fuch Things as Caufes, leads to great Errors — The common Diftinflion be- 

 twixt Firft and Second Caufes, not fufficiently attended to by our modern Philofophers, 

 particularly the Newtonians. p. 212 



CHAP. V. 



The Seat oi Dreams is iht Phantafia—Tht Phantafsa belongs to the jfnimal Nature, for 

 the Prefervation of which it is abfolutely neceflary — Diftinflion of the Human Imagi- 

 nation! into thofe of which we perceive the Delufion, and thofe which we believe to be 

 Realities — This Diftin£lion applied to our luaking Imaginciiions — Diilinflion of our 

 Imaginations into Voluntary and Involuntary — Of.this latter Kind, the Phantafms that 

 appeared to Bonnet^s old Alan — Another Inftance of the fame Kind — Oi waking Phan- 

 tafms, which we miftake for Realities — This the Cafe of the Madman — Difference hc- 

 tw'iKt Madiiefs and Folly — Difference betwixt a lively Imagination and A.'adnefs-Oi 

 our fleeping Phantafms, or Dreams — Ditfeience betwixt Dreaming and Nigbt-waUing 

 — Of the Authors who have written upon the Subjeft of Dreams — viz. Arijhtle, Sy- 

 nejius-, and Baxter — Fafts concerning Dreaming — The Dreamer is afleep — Diftinc- 

 tions hctw'ixt Jleepiag and waking made by Arijiotle — Diftinflion betwixt Z);y(7otj and 



other Appearances in our Sleep Definition of Dreams — Certain PofKions laid down 



coT\ceTn\ng Dreaming — Inquiry into the Philofophy of Dreaming, that is, the Ccz^\s of 

 it — ift-, The Opinions ftatcd of the three Philofophers above mentioned who have 

 written upon this Subject, beginning with Arijiotle— Wis Theory of Drcains — They 

 are, according to him, the Reli£ls of our Senfitions during the Day — Dreams not 

 prophetic, according to him, though there may be a fortuitous Concourfe of the 

 Event with the Dream — Objcdiions to Ari/lotle's Syftem of Dreaming — It can only 

 account for our Dreams of Things recent — It does not define the Phantafta nor a 

 Phantafm properly — General Obfervaiions upon his Philofophy — Of Synefius's Syftem 

 of Dreaming — Account of the Author — A great Believer in Divinationhy Dreams — 

 kept a Journal of his Dreams — The Seat of Dreams, according to him, is the Phan- 

 tafta — It contains the Forms of all Material Things, and is the Organ by which the 

 ylf/«fl' perceives them — In the Phantafa, fays Synsfius, are the Forms of all 7'hings 

 pajl, prefent, Tind future — Thefe the Materials of our Dreams — Our Dreams are of 

 two Kinds — plain and direSl — or myjlerious ^nd fymbolical — The latter .Kind the more 

 common — Thefe accounted for — Of the Art of interpreting them — No common Art 

 for interpreting all Dreams, but an Art peculiar to each Man, which he muft learn 

 by Experience — Objedlions to Syneftus's Syftem— Apology for Syncfius — Baxter's 



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