Chap.V. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. iig. 



CHAP. V, 



The Seat of Dreams is the Phantafia — The Phantafia belongs to the 

 Animal Nature, for the Prefervation of -which it is abfolutely tie- 

 cejfary. — Dijiinclion of the Human Imaginations zw/o /^o^ ofivhich 

 •we perceive the Delufion^ and thofe -which -we believe to be Reali- 

 ties. — This Dijlin^ioji applied to our waking Imaginations. — Di" 

 flitiBion of our Imaginations into Voluntary and Involuntary. — Of 

 this latter Kind, the Phantafms that appeared to Bonnet's old Man. 

 — Another Inflance of the fame Kind — O/^waking Phantafms, -which 

 'we mi/lake for Realities. — This the Cafe of the Madman. — Dif- 

 ference bet-wixt Madnefs and Folly. — Difference bet-wixt a lively 

 Imagination aw^ Madnefs. — Of our fleeping Phantafms, or Dreams. 

 -—Difference bet'wixt Dreaming and Night-walking. — Of the Au- 

 thors -who have -written upon the SubjeB of Dreams. — viz. Ari— 

 ftotle, Synefius, and Baxter. — FaEls ioncerning Dreaming. — The 

 Dreamer is afleep. — Difinclions bet-wixt fleeping awJ waking made 

 by Ariftotle. — Di/linfiioti bet-wixt Dreams and other Appearances 

 in our Sleep — Defnition of Dreams. — Certain Pofitions laid do-wn 

 concerning Dreaming. — Inquiry into the Philofophy of Dreaming, 

 that is, the Caiifes of it. — iff. The Opinions fated of the three 

 Philqfophers abo-ue meiitioned -who have -written upon this Subje^, 

 beginning -with Ariftotle. — His Theory of Dreams. — They are, ac- 

 cording to him, the Reliifls of our Senfations during the Day. — 

 Dreams not prophetic, according to him, though there may be a for- 

 tuitous Concourfe of the Event -with the Dream. — ObjeSlions to A- 

 riftotle's Syffem of Dreaming. — It can only account for our Dreams 

 of things recent. — // does not define the Phantafia nor a Phantafm 

 properly. — General Obfervations upon his Philofophy. — O/'Syne- 



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