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spirits else were material ; which, as hathbeen observed above, he is express in assert-ing: and he owns pretty explicitly, that agreat part of the Pagan Religion was owingto it. In his chapter of imagination (the se-cond of his Leviathan) he fays, " From this" ignorance of how to distinguish dreams," and other strong fancies, from vision and" sense y did arise the greatest part of the reh~" gion of theGentiles in time pas, who wor-" shipped satyrs, fawns, nymphs, and the" like; and now-a-days the opinion that rude" people have of fairies, ghosts and goblins;" and of the power of witches, £?c.” Ho'*'this Author solves the difficulty, we shall als°see below: but tho’ the chimerical imagina-tions of weak people are here industriouslyjumbled in with this phænomenon, which isreal and constant, yet that it naturally tensto strike religion into the minds of men, lSsuch a quality, as should provoke our curi-osity to see what may be in it. Though su-perstition be a human weakness, yet all re-ligion is not to be accounted bad, as Lucft'tius contends. This constant and universaappearance was not designed to stumble men,I dare fay. Nor was it designed for no ens

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