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ing memory, the more they are darkensby that very endeavour. One under th 1 ®disappointment will be vexed that he dctnot dream on, or that any thing should di'slurb him, while he is endeavouring to ca * 0 * 1the slay remains of his vision, or if poffib^’to replace himself in the fame state of co#'sciousness. Here is a whole scene (o?consistent system) of instantaneous kno^'ledge, which might be concerning any o^ eassign able subject, as well as another, tf oithe prompting us with a ready familialwith any knowable subject, withoutown pains in acquiring it by the ordinalmethods, is the only difficulty in the *¥pearance) and which might have beentinned, I think, to any length, by thePower that began it (k).

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(k) I beg leave here to endeavour to take off » P afticular objection against the preceding part of thisbut urged chiefly against the subject of these tw° jparagraphs. It is said, “ The solution I have given, ^" especially what I mention in this place, makes drc atc mere enchantment and Rofccrucian-work , which" absurd to admit into philosophy and among natura" pearances; and that upon this account, we se e ™

<c have always chosen to explain tire phænomen° n