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the /ikciicfj, and alfo of the difference, not only of the objeds of 

 different Senfes, but of the ohjeds of the fame Senfe : And it is 

 this comparative faculty of the objeds of Senfe with one ano- 

 ther, that is called the Reafoning of Brutes. 



Having faid fo much of the Phantafia in general, I will pro- 

 ceed to confider the human Phantafia in particular, the feat of 

 that wonderful phacnomena of our Nature, which I have underta- 

 ken to explain. But, before I proceed to treat of our fleeping 

 Phantafms, I will endeavour to explain the operations of our Phan- 

 tafia while we are awake ; which being more immediately under 

 the infpcdion of our Intelledl:, we underftand better than its opera- 

 tions while we are afleep. 



In thcfr/I place, it is evident that the operations of the Phanta- 

 fia, as well as the Intelle«£t, mult be very much influenced by the 

 habit, difpofitlons, and inclinations of the Mind, and alfo by the 

 ftudies and occupations of life, and, laftly, by the temperament and 

 habit of the Body. I will begin with the laft : But firft, I muft ob- 

 ferve, in general, of all our Imaginations, whether afleep or awake, 

 that they commonly very much exceed the reality ; and the objeds 

 of all our pafllons and purfuits appear to the Phantafia much finer, 

 and more pleafurable, than we find them when we come to be in 

 poflelTion of them ; the reafon pf which I take to be this, that the 

 Mind, being of a nature fo much fuperior to the Body, and work- 

 ing upon its own materials, exhibits feenes, and draws pidlures, very 

 much finer than any that can be made of the grofs materials which 

 Nature furnilhes ; and this efpecially in Madnefs, or in Sleep, when 

 the Imagination is not at all controlled by the Judgment. 



As to the Body, every man knows, from experience, how dif- 

 ferent his Imagination and Fancies arc, when he is in good health, 



and 



