This "dream" "produced such a shock that I had no inclination to talk about it".

Even on Brougham's showing, then, this dream was a thing unique in his experience, and not one of the swarm of visions of sleep.

Thus his including it among these, while his whole language shows that he himself did not really reckon it among these, is an example of the fallacies of common-sense.

He completes his fallacy by saying, "It is not much more wonderful than that a person whom we had no reason to expect should appear to us at the very moment we had been thinking or speaking of him".

But Lord Brougham had _not_ been speaking or thinking of G---; "there had been nothing to call him to my recollection," he says.