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a fting } the man pursuing with the drawnsword will still appear, even though the eyesopen (0). And thus by easy steps we fee,that dreaming may degenerate into pofejjion ;and that the cause and nature of both is thek*me, differing only in degree; for dreaming

(0) Aristotle, though in this whole affair he assigns aAfferent cause from that here given; yet he describes*he formal manner, why ecstatic persons (as he calls them)^ e e what others do not, and cannot fee, nearly the fame* a y: because, to wit, the ordinary motions in the fen-t° r y are overcome, and drowned as it were, by foreignPotions; of which therefore these persons are chiefly fen-^ble, F' inns tKfulmaiv SF/joofiz v, otlriov' oti oixtTxtsxx ho%rS<riv, osAA‘ xzeognrlgovlar twv (ehkot xi>xitrSroi'/ailxi. And a little below of melancholic

farfons, he fays, 'Oi St fAtAxyx,°A‘x.o), hoi to <r(poS^x(t>b vehementiam) (hdAAovlt; iro^oo^tv ol

tlfl (he had been speaking of such as are tv&uovsi oo,) ;^he reason is— — Ai« tijv etyofyoryUx dx hxgitlx i xlnuv** u^)‘ mvneeag. Which is as much as to

the strongest impression predominates. But what isWonderful here is, that Aristotle, believing there were**»'«!«ol and wSul.^o,, should offer to account forthis mechanically. He might as well have said, thatreason in natural philosophy, why some men are

tlch > and others poor, is the different colour of theirhear Jt ,