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us ter the objeffs themselves were gone? A f# 0 'nitory dream or vision , as to the natural matt'ner of its production, is so like another dreafl*which is not monitory, that it is strange a-nyone should assign such opposite causes,effects every way alike, except in relationcertain events which are to follow. Nor isless surprizing, that, after what he has vvrr^ten in many places, he should still conclu ^ 6with so much assurance , and so little argumentthat the soul of man, all spirits, andinfinite in all perfections, are but matersthings (as hath been observed above.) Tb lSis but a poor remedy for the jargon of $schools which he complains of.

LV. This last solution of dreaming is ta& eI *from Aristotle' s; and so little different fro 1 * 1it, that the fame considerations shew th^both to be quite foreign to the purpose. J?*'stotle says, that the objects of sense prcdu^sensation in every one of the organs; aflthat this sensation, or perception [ordSoSiremains in the organs, not only while th 6objects act, but after they are gone (/) ’

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