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vanced enough to understand such deep !things: but the Master hath not that i

faction in his own mind, which arises h' onl Iknowing the case, and his having made a 11 'other understand it. So, I think, it isDemocritus , Epicurus , Arijiotle , and their ^veral followers: whatever these men said i0 jamuse others, they had not the pleasure 10believe themselves.

LVI. Before we leave this subject ofdreams, there is one circumstance morebe observed in them, wonderful enough]which might be of use to us, if we coe"enter more into the nature of it. I shallendeavour to express the appearance its^"and take notice of a truth, which seemsturally to follow from it: perhaps some otlj efhand may not disdain to pursue it. It is th> s 'In our steep persons and objeSis are frequentpresented to us, with the newness of wh^we are no way surprised, because we. seem ^know them. They are represented as kno^ 1 *and familiar objects, and we allow them 10be such, being acquainted with them ^first sight; though we know not how,where, such familiarity was contracted: