CONTENTS. 



Opinion concerning Dreams — The Author's Syftem upon the Subje£l— An Account 

 oi thz Phantafta, which is divided \nx.o retentive and active — diftinguifhed from Body — 

 from the Vegetable — from the Int^lIe,fJuaILi/e—he]oDg\pg therefore to the Animal Na- 

 ture — That Nature not to be divided into three Parts, but one Nature operating dif- 

 ferently — Neceffity of thefe different Operations — Progrefs of the Animal Nature in 

 Man — The P/jij/z^iT/M exceedingly imperfect at firft — Definition of the Phantafia — 

 The fame with the Common Sei:fc of Ariflctle — It has a Power of perceiving Likene'Jir 

 and Differences in Objeils of Senfe — This comparative Faculty is what is called the 

 Reafon of Brutes — Of the Hutnan Phantaf,a — An6, ift, Of cur Phantafia, when 

 waking — The Images in it exceed the Reality of Nature — Much iiifluenccd by the 

 Habit of the Body — By the Love of Beauty it is diftinguiflicd from the Phantafia of the 

 Animal — The Perception of Beauty in the Intellect — The Phantafia fubfervicnt to 7^2- 

 tdlc^, as the higher Pawvr -Difference betwixt Genius and Tafle — The Influence of 

 the Ridiculous upon the Imagination — Of other Difpofitions of Mind— The Influenca 

 of the Studies and the Purfuits of Life upon the Lnagination— Our v.aking Phantafia 

 under the Controul of our governing Power — but that Power not alfolute or unlimited 

 — Of our Sleeping Phantafms, as diftinguifhed from the Operations of our httelleSf in 

 Sleep — Thefe like wife under the Influence of jhe Habit of the Body— Of the Phantafms 

 in our Sleep confidered as difl:in(St from our Reafonings at that Time — Such Phantafms 



muft neceflarily exifl Confequences of our Dreams being the Operation of our 



Phantafia, and not our htelleSl — The JForld \n our Phantafia very much finer than 

 the Natural IVorld — Of the Dreams of Poets—ofPhihpphers—Of the Dreams of the 

 wicked — Thefe a great Addition to their Mifery — The Dreams rf the Generality of 

 Men, betwixt thefe two, neither happy nor miferable — No Order or Regularity in the 

 Phantafms of a vulgar Man, feeping or icu/t//?^— Otherwife in the Brute and the per' 

 feci Man — Baxter's Account of the Origin of Dreams refuted — Of Prophetic Dreams 

 1— Objedlions to Synefus's Syfl:em concerning them— All PrcpLtic Dreams plain and 

 direfl, and proceeding from Minds fuperior to ours— Such Minds may communicate 

 with ours, though embodied — The Revelation by Dreams in one of two Ways— . 

 Fafls concerning Z))Vi7wx— Particular Account of the Dreams of Ariflides during 13 



Years — Cured of a Difeafe, that lafted fo long, by Advice that he got in Dreams 



Delivered from other Dangers in that Way — Nothing incredible in the Narrative of 

 Ariflides — Reafons for believing it to be true — Objections anfwered, to the Tefti- 

 mony of Ariflides — The Authority of Synefius in favour of Dreams — His whole Life 

 ConduiSled by them — Of the Final Caufes of Dreams — The Philofophy of Human Na- 

 ture very imperfedt without the Knowledge of that Caufe— That Caufe the Happinefs 

 of Senfttive Intelligent Beings during their whole Lives — The virtuous happy in that 

 Way, as the vicious are miferable ~ Another End of Drea/ning, to convince us that 



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