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of bone, and designated, in our language, the brain, is equal to all the phenomena which thought displays: until he can do this and more-I will dauntless assert, that imagination, genius, talent, hope, fear, joy, sorrow, and, perhaps, more than all, memory and remorse, are not attributes of that same pulpy matter, nor within the powers and operations of any other pulp, to which he shall resort.

By permission, I will, therefore, agreeably to my hypothesis, set my mind, at rest; because, from this unformed and rude sketch, this outline of so interesting an enquiry, I think it appears sufficiently obvious, that we are to look, not to the requisition of the corporeal frame for the primary uses and advantages of sleep, but to those of its bright inhabitant, at present confederated therewith in harmonious and reciprocal action; while both are held together by a bond of inconceivable union.

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REMARKS ON DREAM.

OUR notice of the measure of time which has escaped during sleep, is commonly erroneous. Whether our sleep has been with or without dream, our idea of its length is equally illusive; and our mistake, as it should seem, generally consists in over extending its measure. Whoever knows the hour when he steps into bed; falls asleep presently; then happens to awake in an hour or two, let us say, and looks at his watch, will be satisfied of the fact; he would probably have conjectured that he had slept many hours. A candle or rushlight, will also serve for the experiment the length of either can be noted, and observed again on the waking of the person. He will feel to have been asleep a long time, when the trifling consumption of his taper, will ascertain him that he has not slept an hour.

And here, it is of curious observation, that in one instance, time, passed in sleep, corresponds in its after impression on the

mind, with waking time; and in another, essentially differs from it: for, first, to waking time, the length of past days and weeks measures great, by the imagination, in proportion as these have abounded with multiplicity and variety of incident and action. The retrospective view of time that has been employed in travel; in repeated change of scenery; in visiting new places; in bustle and in enterprise; is found to stretch agreeably to the impressions left upon the mind, so far beyond its actual limit, that a person who has been thus busily and variously engaged, during a single week, will find this little portion, when past, expanded in his conception, far, very far, beyond that period. A similar enlarged idea of retrospective measure, in reference to time, occurs in sleep, which has been occupied in the imagery, the bustle, and machinery of dream; not because it has been so occupied, but because the time was passed in sleep; which, as I have already noticed, is wont to impress the imagination with an idea of extent entirely at variance with reality and truth.

Again, secondly, waking time, which has flowed in an even current of dull monotony; which has never been broken and

distributed into parts by incident; visited by an unexpected guest; or awakened by the charms of novelty; crawls tediously along; though, when fairly gone by, it furnishes no images for recollection, and therefore seems short in the retrospect.

Not so, after the blank and nothingness of dreamless sleep, which will be found to leave behind it an impression of extent, greater, perhaps, than sleep, which has been accompanied with vivid and multifarious imagery.

The circumstances of agreement in one instance and discrepance in another, between waking and sleeping time, presents an interesting subject for further examination: and I should be happy, to see it nicely analyzed by any able pneumatologist. It will be sufficient for the writer, if such should prove to be the consequence, that he has incited the enquiry.

I have remarked, that our retrospect of time, lapsed in sleep, accompanied by dream, is no less erroneous than when our sleep passes without any presentation of scenery or object.

The correctness of this observation will be illustrated, if, on recollection of any dream which might have seemed, while

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