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 with a Ring of Trumpeters, and that they all at the same time sound their Trumpets. Let us now see if the circumsonant clangor of those surrounding Trumpets sounding from all sides will awake these Nullibists out of their Lethargick Dream. And let us suppose, which they will willingly concede, that the Conarion or Glandula Pinealis, A, is the seat of the common sense, to which at length all the motions from external Objects arrive. Nor is it any matter whether it be this Conarion, or some other part of the Brain, or of what is contained in the Brain: But let the Conarion, at least for this bout, supply the place of that matter which is the common Sensorium of the Soul.

Fig. 1.

And whenas it is supposed to be surrounded with Eight Trumpeters, let there be Eight Lines drawn from them namely, from B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I; I say that the clangour or sound of every Trumpet is carried from the Ring of the Trumpeters to the extream part of every one of those Lines, and all those sounds are heard as coming from the Ring B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and perceived in the Conarion A; and that the perception is in that part to which all the Lines of motion, as to a common Centre, do concur; and therefore the extream parts of them, and the perceptions of the Clangours or Sounds, are in