Thoughts on dreaming. Wherein the notion of the sensory, and the opinion that it is shut up from the inspection of the soul in sleep, and that spirits supply us with all our dreams are examined by Revelation and reason. Occasioned by an essay on the phoenomenon of dreaming, in a book, entitled An enquiry into the nature of the human soul [by Andrew Baxter]. Wherein the immateriality of the soul is evinced from the principles of reason and philosophy / By Tho. Branch.

  • Thomas Branch
Date:
1738
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Credit: Thoughts on dreaming. Wherein the notion of the sensory, and the opinion that it is shut up from the inspection of the soul in sleep, and that spirits supply us with all our dreams are examined by Revelation and reason. Occasioned by an essay on the phoenomenon of dreaming, in a book, entitled An enquiry into the nature of the human soul [by Andrew Baxter]. Wherein the immateriality of the soul is evinced from the principles of reason and philosophy / By Tho. Branch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rlie Senfes: This, together with what wa^ faid to the laft Difficultyy will explain thofe Things, in the Dreams here in» itanced, which relate to’ prefent Time; V. g. The dead IVoman livings arid in a State of Marriagey and the Situation of prefent Circitmfances j as alfo, the Readery tho’ not the Sentences rea^. [How the Soul flionld want a ConfciouTnefs of raifing thefe imaginary Scenes, and that it fbould be confcious of performing its own Parts in them, and confcious that other Aftors per¬ form theirs, will be, anon, fpoke to.] Thefe Particulars, then, being laid afide, let us proceed to confider the other Parts of thefe Dreams, viz. The Circtmfances of the pafl Rife of the married Couple 5 and the previous Acquaintance zvith the vifonary Author’’s Subjeffy and the Remarks ready to be offered thereon. I may venture to fup- pofe, that thefe, fome Circumfances remem¬ bered, were not many, tho’ this Gentle¬ man concludes the Sentence thus, as if he had been led into it from the Expe-^ ^\rience of fome Tears ;for I underftand him to intend no more, than that the Soul acquiefees in the Certainty of the paft and prefent Circumftances, aS it would do if the
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