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which, together with our being passive inreceiving the impressions of external objectsthrough the senses, we are also active andbusy in thinking of them(-r). And certainlyin dreaming it is so; it is far from beingtrue that the foul then is Only percipient,exclusive of being active; for it is just asactive as it would be in like circumstances,when the person is awake. Perhaps it Wasthe consideration of its being thus busiedthen, that hath made some men inadvertentlyassert, that it produces every thing seen, orheard, in fleep, unknown to itself; havingnothing readier to say. This was the Epi-curean solution of dreams, as I shall have oc-casion to observe hereafter. But the dif-ference here marked, made Aristotle rejectthat account as absurd; and although De-tfiocritus’s uiceXa avoided this absurdity, yethe rejects that also for other reasons. Andgenerally they all reject one another’s accountsas unsatisfying: whence it appears there isreason for rejecting them all. Moreover, if

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