Phœnomenon of Dreaming. 169

^'de. And lastly, what the soul itself does° r thinks in sleep, is much the same with^^t it would do or think in like circum-an Ces if we were awake. And indeed if aWill consider the different accidents ofls kind that happen to persons both whilej^ ee P and while awake, (and the latter per-, Ja Ps without any previous disorder of the°%) he will conceive it. very possible, that'Waking thoughts might be all as incon-, tesi t, as now our dreams are; and ouroughts in sleep as consistent as our thoughts5re Uow by day. So incompetent a principlet *^e matter of the body , or the right difpo-tl °n of that matter, to ascribe the perse Sti-11 of rational thinking to I Mr. Locke, inPiace taken notice of above {/), seems? c harge this as consequent upon the asier-0r> of some of his adversaries; and yet im-mediately after, I think, he makes it appearhis own opinion. He fays, " This ICc ^ould willingly be satisfied in, Whethertt *he soul when it thinks thus apart, andu as it were separate from the body, acts< t , st rationally than when conjointly withv 1 *j or no : if its separate thoughts are less(/) Sect. IV. N’ 21. Vol. I. Note (?).

4t rational.