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ec rational, then 'These Men must say th^the soul orwes ^e perfeSlion of ratiosthinking to the body ; if it does not, ’ t]S %wonder that our dreams should be, ^the most part, so frivolous and irrational*Here this absurdity is first made a consequ(1$of what These Men say ; and immediatelyit is surmised that the quality of our dresl^shews this absurdity to be fact. This is se 'ally a strange way of proceeding, to {hv$ eover the odiousness of an insinuation up oflothers ; and in cafe they should disown jt ’and that circumstance from which he won"infer it, (viz. that the soul thinks witho^being conscious of it) to endeavour to pro^it, by an appearance, which he hasat hand. These Mien deny that the s° .thinks less or more rationally, without b 6 'ing conscious of it; and therefore any coP'sequence of such a position : but who is ^here that appeals to the frivolousness ^irrationality of our dreams, to thew, th a jthe foul owes the perfection of ratiosthinking to the body ? Mr. Locke showhave told us what were his own sentimentof this affair; and, if it were an absurdity*

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