’Phœnomenon of Dreaming. 5this subject before, that it will be the moreeasy to assign, and fix upon, the symptoms , ac-cidents , and things remarkable about dream-ing : and it cannot be unfair to argue froman Adversary’s account of the thing in dis-pute. For this reason, I shall be particularin giving their sense in their own words, lestit might be thought a false gloss had beenput upon them. Nor shall I always takethe advantage of arguing from such pregnantinstances, as they themselves allow to b tjaB-,but reason from common and ordinary ex-amples. The method insisted on shall be,first to give a natural solution of the ap-pearance itself; and then to answer the ob-jections that may be raised against it. Andhere all the collateral appearances that mightbe urged, shall be taken into consideration ;and the affinity between possessing the fancyin steep, or dreaming, and possessing it whileawake, shall be remarked; as also betweenvisions in steep, and visions while awake,which are called apparitions; such as Plutarchtells us Brutus and Dion had offered to them jwhose lives upon this account, among o-tfiers, he compares together; observing onlythe philosophical consistency, without con-B 3 tending