Phcenomenon as &r earning. 213

the foul applies to, and consults, when^ Wou\d consider the objects themselves, now

absent.

eilCe of it, they are proof, it seems, against the cause ofthis Phænomenori, whatever it be, whether matter andor immaterial Agents; and if they are not proof^§ainst that cause, to what purpose is it to dispute aboutname, while they own the thing itself? Besides, has* 1 ° t every Author who treats on this subject, assigned^° r e wonderful instances than I have ventured to give ?

is not this, first to own the power of the cause ex-f rte d in the effect, and then to disown it again, by giv-ln S it a false name ? It must be preposterous to endeavour*ssnk the cause, and exalt the effect at the same time.not inconsistent in Cicero, when he would treat of

Phi

er y thing that is noble and sublime; when he would ex-

. >n the constitution of the Universe, the order and mo-tl0jl of the heavenly bodies ; when he would speak of thej^ture of the foul, and of the infinite Fountain of all Be-ln i > in a word, when he would express the noblest senti-^nts that can enter into the mind of man; to deliver

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lily.sonsub,

Under the form of a dream, and yet elsewhere toOmnium somniorum eaclem ejl ratio, &c? Either^ dreams have a higher original, or he degrades his-f,y dreffingit up as a dream. On his supposition,

sti^E ^ave been as probable, and even decent, to have5 a ll this was the ravings of a man in a fever, as thegm of a Scipio. This is confessing one way, andde-

yin e another.

last

to what I observe concerning dreams in these two

Paragraphs ; That in them we are often promptedP ; with