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ing objects. However Lucretius’ s fear W3 Slest the foul should not be dead enough; andhe proposes his solution to cure that. Again,Arijlotle would have us believe, that the il'lusions obtruded on the imagination, whd ethe person is feverish, arise from mechanicalmotions excited in the sensory ; by tellingus that the living creatures sometimes fee 11then on the walls, are nothing but a fe^strokes, or draughts, which bear a distalresemblance {a). But he should have re'membered, that we hear and see thing Sthen, though all is dark and silent round us-We put some questions, and answer others,as if some body was talking with us. Buthave sounds their images to represent them,or are those images visible in the dark ? Suchcircumstances plainly shew a cause mos epowerful than a few strokes on the wall ofthe chamber, dealing with the imagination-. And in the former part of the paragraph, h eassigns the like poor and unsatisfying reasonsfor distractions arising from love, grief \ seas ,&c. From hence then it appears, I think,

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