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and when his Body is affedled by any difeafe ; and there are fome difea- 

 fes which affedl the Imagination more, when we are awake, as well 

 as when we are afleep, than other. Thus, as Ariftotle has obfer- 

 ved, men in fevers fee figures upon the wall, even before the difeafe 

 is come to fuch a height, as to make the fick man beHeve them to be 

 realities. And there are fome difeafes, which afTcdl the Imagination, 

 or Spirits, as we commonly fpeak, fo much, that they are called by 

 Phyficians Difeafes of the Spirits. 



Further, as the appetites and wants of the body are the chief con- 

 cern of many men, the objefts of their gratification are thofe which 

 occupy the firft place in the Phantafia of fuch men ; and I am per- 

 fuaded that thofe appetites, and whatever elfe may concern the ani- 

 mal oeconomy, are the only objeds of the Phantafia of the Brute, 

 fleeping or waking ; for, as Nature does nothing in vain, there can 

 be no reafon affigned why there fhould be any thing elfe in their 

 Imagination. And, as a fenfual man is very little better than a 

 brute, his Imagination muft be full of what he fhall eat, drink, or 



enjoy, of bodily pleafure of every kind. And fo much for the 



influence of the Body upon our Imagination.. 



Had we no other defires but thofe belonging to the Animal Life, 

 our Imaginations, like thofe of other Animals, would be wholly em- 

 ployed about the objeds of thofe defires ; but we have other defires 

 belonging ro the Rational Nature, which make our Imaginations 

 much more rich and various than thofe of the Brute creation. And 

 firft, we have the love of Beauty of every kind, whether in objeds 

 vifible or audible, in manners, fentiments, or adions. This Love 

 of Beauty, as 1 have fhown *, is congenial with the Rational Na- 

 ture : And whoever Is entirely void of it, hardly deferves the name 

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