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activity of spirit be clogged with dead matter*4nd is certainly false in a state of separation.That I may not be misunderstood* I do nottftean that any man should lie for the sake oftr uth J (truth stands in need of ho such help*hut rejects it;)nor that one should avoid anydifficulty, or not consider all sides of anya Ppearance * but what I complain of is, then °t considering all sides of any appearancehom which a weighty inference seems to bedrawn, especially if it be perplext in itself *as the appearance of dreams certainly is. Ifshe foul were indebted to matter for the per-fection of rational thinking, matter wouldhe the perfecter being of the two ; which itWould be absurd to suppose: and if thinking*°r activity (and that the highest kind of aC-hvity) doth not belong to the nature of im-material substance, it must be merely accident-to all substance* which is no less absurd,fnis last I have shewn false in what is saidbefore(N° 3 .) And an endeavour to removethe pretence which our dreams may give forsuggesting* that the foul owes the perfection^f rational thinking to matter, together withsome other reasons to be mentioned hereafterVol. I. Y will*