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an d action(</). Al?l Mr. Locke’s reasoning,'S ai nji a man’s thinkingwithout being consci-ous

*? en *bis could not fee accounted for, without interest-some superior cause : since certainly its own naturallowers cannot fee rendered greater, or quicker in sleep^ an otherwise.

(d) There was a particular objection raised against'argument in N° 6. which because it refers to seme-^g spoken of in this paragraph, I have reserved toe Considered here, as I promised in the Note (■«■). It is^ follows. “ Against your argument brought to proveseat the foul-itself cannot be the cause of trouble-, ( forn representations in dreaming, there seems place'for an exception ; that by the force of its own ima-ginative power se i can represent such things to itselfwhile awake ; as conversing with others* being upon■® precipice* recalling the memory of imminent dange) *a «d the like; which it can work up to cause trou-1|( ^esem passions, such as fear and horror; Why then• ^Oy it not be supposed, by the force of imagination,

* ^ich exerts itself in sleeps to do the fame s There,' ls * memorable story to this purpose, of a 'Gentle-‘ who in the time of snow rode over the Lake ,°f Geneva-, and being told at his arrival in the ci-ty* of the danger he was in, it made such an im-Pfeffion upon him, that he instantly died. It is

<< 0l ^tied that in your forty fourth paragraph, thereI, a , re seme instances, which it seems not easy to re-

to this supposition.”*

But