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invented by the active XIIIth century mind on purpose to signify that which has properties, i.e. characters sufficient to identify it, whether any single man or group of men in any way attribute them to it, or no. It has 'real properties,' or distinctive characters that can no more be purloined from it than lands and houses from their owner,—things that had long been called propria realia. The substance of a dream is not Real, because it was such as it was merely in that the dreamer so dreamed it; but the fact of the dream, because if it was dreamed at all, it was as