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m ight all be but inward representation upon*h e sensory: and any other person presentthight neither have heard or seen any thing.However, this is suggested as probable only,

° r easily conceivable, from what is said a-hove of the like spectres and visions offeredto us in our sleep ; and the easy transitionthere is, from making us fee them in sleep,to the making us fee them while awake;a nd because this is more conformable to our°Vvn experience and to philosophy, than theassuming condensed bodies of air. Yet itls not meant as if there were any thing in-consistent even in that supposition. Eitherof these ways is more conceivable, thanthat by which his friend Cajjius accountedfor this vision the next morning, when Bru-f us went and consulted him upon it, from*he notions of Epicurus , in which there isNothing intelligible, and some things contra-dictory (r): or the way that Hobbes hath

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