230 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book IV. 



fius's Syf.em of Breaming. — Account of the Author. — A great be- 

 Uei'er in Divination hy Dreams — kept a Journal of bts Dreams. — 

 The Seat of Dreams., according to him, is the Phantafia. — It con- 

 tains the Forms of all Material Things, and is the Organ by "which 

 the Mind perceives them. — In the Fhantafiaj/y'j- Synefius, are the 

 Forms of all things paft, piefent, and future. — Thefe /^f Mate- 

 rials of our Dreams. — Our Dreams are of tivo kinds — plain and di- 

 ireft — or myfterious atid fymbolical. — Ihe latter kind the more com- 

 mon. — Thefe accounted for. — Of the Art of interpreting them. — No 

 tommon Art for interpreting all Di'eams, but an Art peculiar to each 

 Mail, nvhich he hiufl learn by Experience. — Objedions to Synefi- 

 us's. Syfl^m. — Apology for Synefius. — Baxter's Opinion concerning 

 Dreams. — The Author's Syflem upon the SubjeSI. — An Account of 

 the Phantafia — ivhich is divided i7ito retentive and a^t'ive^di/lin- 

 guijljed from Body — from the Vegetable— yro/« the Intel le6lual 

 Life — belonging therefore to the Animal Nature. — That Nature not 

 to be divided into three Parts, but one Nature operating differently. 

 — Nece/fity of thefe different Operations. — Progrefs of the Animal 

 Nature in Man. — The Phantafia exceedingly imperfe6l at firfl. — De- 

 finition of the Phantafia. — The fame nxnth the Common Senfe of h.- 

 riftotle. — It has a Poiuer of perceiving Likenefles and Differences 

 in Objedls of Senfe. — This comparative Faculty is ivhat is called 

 the Reafon of Brutes. — Of the Human Phantafia. — And, ift, Of 



our Phantafia, ivhen ivaking 7 he Images in it exceed the Reality 



of Nature. — Much influenced by the Habit of the Body. — By the 

 Love of Beauty it is di/linguifljed from the Phantafia of the Ani- 

 mal. — The Perception of Beauty, in the Intelleft. — The Phantafia 

 fubfervient to Intelleft, as the higher Power. — Difference betwixt 

 Genius and Tafte. — The Influence of the Ridiculous «/><?« /^<? Ima- 

 gination. — Of other Difpofttions of Mind — The Influence of the 

 Studies and the Purfuits of Life upon the Imagination.— Oar wa- 

 king Phantafia Jinder the controul of our governing Vowtx—but that 



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