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out designing to act, or dejign to adl withoutknowing it designed, or know that it de-figned the aSlion , and yet be terrified at it,is inconceivable.

VI. To this maybe added, that many ofthese scenes are above the power and work-manship of the soul itself [h ); so that it

could

(h) That cause which exhibits the vision to the foul insleep, seems to have a great power over it in other re-speSis. Sometimes we are made to think that we areflying aloft in the air ; sometimes we are Jlruch with fee-bleness, that we cannot fly From an enemy, who seemsto pursue us. Wear c dejeiled, elevated, and affedtedallmanner of ways, which one would never ascribe to thesoul itself. This is touching it another way than by barelyexhibiting of vision. But that which is most surprizingshall he mentioned toward the end of the section.

Some of the circumstances of our dreams mentionedhere, are well observed by the most natural sort of Phi-losophers ; the Poets, I mean. Homer, speaking of Hec-tor's flying before Achilles, and Achilles pursuing him,uses the following comparison.

"a 7 ; h oi/sipa, oy S'vncelai (pwfovla huxnv,

0 t ois §wo£\a,i vsroQsvlhv, ovh o $iuxuv'

0 rw ou Stinalo ŒJossiv, ov$’. o; ahl%a.i.

Iliad. p£. ver. 199^

And Taffo after him yet more fully,

Come vtde taP her torbidi flgni

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