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that it worketh by presence, and not by the eye 

 alone ; yet most forcibly by the eye. 



945. Fear and shame are likewise infective ; for 

 we see that the starting of one will make another 

 ready to start : and when one man is out of counte 

 nance in a company, others do likewise blush in his 

 behalf. 



Now we will speak of the force of imagination 

 upon other bodies, and of the means to exalt and 

 strengthen it. Imagination, in this place, I under 

 stand to be, the representation .of an individual 

 thought. Imagination is of three kinds : the first 

 joined with belief of that which is to come : the second 

 joined with memory of that which is past : and the 

 third is of things present, or as if they were present ; 

 for I comprehend in this, imaginations feigned, and 

 at pleasure, as if one should imagine such a man to 

 be in the vestments of a Pope, or to have wings. I 

 single out, for this time, that which is with faith or 

 belief of that which is to come. The inquisition of 

 this subject in our way, which is by induction, is won 

 derful hard : for the things that are reported are full 

 of fables ; and new experiments can hardly be made, 

 but with extreme caution, for the reason which we 

 will hereafter declare. 



The power of imagination is of three kinds ; the 

 first upon the body of the imaginant, including like 

 wise the child in the mother s womb ; the second is, 

 the power of it upon dead bodies, as plants, wood, 

 stone, metal, &c. the third is, the power of it upon 



