390 ObjeEUons to the immateriality

real register ? If there were any fault here,that would be levelled at a higher, cause , ashas been said; but there is really no mistakeor blunder in the case; but a necessity arisingfrom the confinement of spirit to a dark cor-poreal prison: when the confinement is takenoff", things must be otherwise. Now exter-nal circumstances being thus disposed, theregister or feat of memory is darkened, im-pressions are made on the sensory, the soulnecessarily perceives these, the perceptionsare as real as if the objects really existed, thefoul takes them for real, it acts and behavesas if they were real. This is neither to bedelirious nor mad. It would be requiring toomuch of an embodied spirit to blame it forbeing subject to illusions. Let us for oncesuppose, that all these alterations were madein the sensory while we are awake j and thenlet any one say what would be the conse-quence. The soul would behave in the verysame way as it does while we are asteep.There is no man, no not the greatest Philo-sopher, who would not be thus imposed on.He hath not considered the thing aright,who thinks he should be able to stand his

ground, Lastly, let us suppose that steep

goes