UNITY OF IMAGINATION.

Since the imagination is only the representation of the senses, it can

only be pleased or displeased with the images, from the same principle

on which the sense is pleased or displeased with the realities;

and consequently there must be just as close an agreement in the

imaginations as in the senses of men. A little attention will convince

us that this must of necessity be the case.

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