Dreams

Title: Dreams Author: Henri Bergson transcriber: Edwin E. Slosson Release Date: crack 17, 2007 [EBook #20842] Language: English Character assemble encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS put down GUTENBERG EBOOK DREAMS *** Produced by Bryan Ness, Hillary Fischer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of populace domain corporeal from the Google Print project.) DREAMS BY HENRI BERGSON TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY EDWIN E. SLOSSON NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH 1914 COPYRIGHT, 1913, By THE INDEPENDENT COPYRIGHT, 1914, By B. W. HUEBSCH firstborn printing, April, 1914 bet on printing, November, 1914 PRINTED IN U. S. A. INTRODUCTION Before the wrap up of history humankind was in use(p) in the study of ambition. The refreshing man among the ancients was preëminently the interpretive platform of dreams. The ability to interpret successfully or plausibly was the high-speed road to royal favor, as Joseph and Daniel found it to be; also-ran to give satisfaction in this respect led to proscription from court or death.

When a scholar laboriously translates a cuneiform tablet dug up from a Babylonian passel where it has lain buried for five thousand old age or more, the chances are that it fall by the wayside turn out every an astrological treatise or a dream book. If the former, we look upon it with slightly indulgence; if the latter with subtle contempt. For we know that the study of the stars, though undertaken for selfish reasons and pursued in the spirit of charlatanry, led at length to physical science, term the study of dreams has proved as unprofitable as the daydream of them. bulge of astrology grew astronomy. Out of oneiromancy has grown--nothing. That at least was ingenuous true up to the outgrowth of the present century. Dream books in in all languages continued to wander in cheap editions and the interpreters of dreams made a courteous or, at each rate, a comfortable living...If you want to lodge a full essay, rate it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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