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drawn ? And in what part of the Body is this picture hung up ? 

 Thefe are queftions that cannot be anfwered ; and the truth of the 

 matter is, that this is only a metaphorical or figurative way of 

 fpeaking, exprefling, that we fee the things as if they were prefented 

 to us in a pidlure. All that we truly know of the matter is, that the 

 Mind is converfant with objedts, diftant both in Time and Place ; 

 but how it tranfports itfelf to thofe diftant Times and Places, we 

 cannot account, any more than we can for many other things in 

 Nature. 



This power of the Mind, however extraordinary it may feem, is 

 common to us with the other Animals ; but in them it is confined to 

 the purpofes of the Animal Life, that is, the prefervation of the In- 

 dividual and the continuation of the kind, which could not be 

 without Memory or Imagination. But the Intelledtual Mind of 

 Man being deftined for higher purpofes, is not fo limited, but goes 

 through the whole univerfe, even 



extra jlammantia fjioenia mundi *, 



and fees beyond this world other worlds. When the Mind Is fo 

 employed, it is very properly faid to be abroad ; 



peregre eft Animus "f" ; 



So that, when external objeds operate upon the Senfes, and knock, 

 as it were, at the door, the Mind is not at home. 



This, therefore, is the anfwer to the queftion, Where the Human 

 Mind is ? That it fometimes is where the Body is,at other times in very 

 diftant places : And the anfwer to the queftion, When ? is, that it 



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• Lucretius, 

 t Horatius. 



