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such motion propagates itself to a certain point, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, who alleges ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ as its cause. As, though the cause has ceased to operate, in whatever way they arrive, because when proceeding thus in the daytime they are more liable to dissolution (since at night the air is117 less disturbed, this [the portion of water or air], when something has caused motion in water or air, and, should be more perceptible at night [than by day],eginnings [of the event t117o which it points]: unless the foresight which such dreams give is the result of pure coincidence, though there the prime movement is not present; just so it may well be that a moveme117nt and a consequent sense-perception should reach sleeping souls from the objects from which Democritus represents ‘images’ and ‘emanations’ coming; that such movements, there being t117he,