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From this we would not infer, that some'pieces were the effect of art, and others ofchance. And often the nature of the thingproduced doth not require so much skill toe employed. Thus to instance in the pre-cnt cafe, from the fame description of Ovid ;

may conceive less art is necessary to histhird Deity , to represent to the fancy in^p, mountains, houses, rivers; than to thefitond to exhibit the motions and spontaneityobanimals, though mute: but that it is stillar der than either of these for the first, to^present men speaking and aiding like rati-onal creatures.

XXXVII. As to what is urged, that bo-distempers may be the cause of these re-presentations, enough hath been said al-i ready («). No man can serioufly persuadermsctf, whatever he may say, that themaple indisposition of the brain, or anyot her part of the body ; that is, a mere dis-| °srangement of material parts, can be a suf-deient cause, why a scene of vision isobtruded on the foul, where there is lifea od reason ; nor doth he really understand

& n ) See the note (n) in this; and (b) in Sect. V. Vol, I.

himself