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8. But the mind errs, when it so lovingly and intimately connects
itself with these images, as even to consider itself to be something of
the same kind. For so it is conformed to them to some extent, not by
being this, but by thinking it is so: not that it thinks itself to be
an image, but outright that very thing itself of which it entertains
the image. For there still lives in it the power of distinguishing the
corporeal thing which it leaves without, from the image of that
corporeal thing which it contains therefrom within itself: except when
these images are so projected as if felt without and not thought
within, as in the case of people who are asleep, or mad, or in a
trance.
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