402 ObjeSiions to the Immateriality

ons in it patent and open, as they are whilewe continue awake; and since in sleep theseanimal spirits are called from that function toother purposes; we may hence fee the reason,why forgetfulness should accompany sleep,and the seat of memory he the first thing thatis affected at that time. There is a plain ne-cessity in the nature of the thing why itshould be so. This is not the defect of thefoul, but the imperfection of matter. Andyet even here we may admire the Goodnessand Wisdom of God. There is no mistakenor blunder in the cafe, as has been said.The œconomy stands in need to be rectified,the body wants respite from continued ex-ercise and fatigue, and especially the animalspirits themselves are to be recruited. Sleeptherefore was to be a ft ate of reft and ina&ion ,no change was to be effected, nor was thefoul any way to be concerned here. It is theGod of nature that watches for us, and per-forms all in the animal œconomy, (sect. z.N° 12. to 18.) and recruits those very bo-dies of ours while we sleep. Thus there wa sno occasion for memory when the foul hadnothing to do; hence these impressions areshut up, when their remaining open could