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in steep mostly clouded over, by the natureof that indisposition ; which is the reasonwhy we cannot then use our past experience*or memory of things; to convince ourselvesthat the appearances offered to, or forced up-on the foul in sleep, are not in truth existingexternally; for the internal representation i 9as real, as if the object of it existed fromwithout. But possibly we shall discover &view of a superior faculty of reminiscence lilproceeding to examine this appearance, whsokis independent of a corporeal organ, or so atof impressions made on the sensory. We af gby no means justified in philosophy, to dra^Weighty inferences, such as that the perfectson of rational thinking may depend up olJmatter, or that the foul may owe its percepttivity and life to that dead substance; I &}*we are by no means justified in drawing fu c ^weighty inferences from a perplexed and daf^phænomenon, without narrowly examim 0 ^the nature and circumstances of it, as so r aSthey are accessible to us. And it is not todisiembled by Mr. Locke's greatest admitsthat his method of reasoning all alongthis subject, tends to lead weak andcal men, to make these inferences j