But let us a little lengthen this chapter, and add another anecdote concerning blindness. Pliny reports of one who, dreaming he was blind, found himself so indeed in the morning without any preceding infirmity in his eyes. The force of imagination might assist in this case, as I have said elsewhere, and Pliny seems to be of the same opinion; but it is more likely that the motions which the body felt within, of which physicians, if they please, may find out the cause, taking away his sight, were the occasion of his dream.

Место: CHAPTER XXV · ¶3353
Лицензия: Public domain · Источник
Текст приведён как в издании, без правок.

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (WLC), CC BY 4.0

But let us a little lengthen this chapter, and add another anecdote co… — Essays