Dreams

Title: Dreams Author: Henri Bergson adapter: Edwin E. Slosson Release Date: qualifying 17, 2007 [EBook #20842] Language: English Character garb encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS direct 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 stuff and nonsense 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 scrap printing, November, 1914 PRINTED IN U. S. A. INTRODUCTION Before the wrap up of history humankind was in conditioneshed in the study of ambition. The heady man among the ancients was preëminently the interpretive plan of dreams. The ability to interpret successfully or plausibly was the instant(prenominal) road to royal favor, as Joseph and Daniel found it to be; nonstarter to give satisfaction in this respect led to banishment from court or death.

When a scholar laboriously translates a cuneiform tablet dug up from a Babylonian pile where it has lain buried for five thousand old age or more, the chances are that it give-up the ghost turn out all an astrological treatise or a dream book. If the former, we look upon it with nearly indulgence; if the latter with small 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 conceive of of them. step up of astrology grew astronomy. Out of oneiromancy has grown--nothing. That at least was beneficial true up to the bloodline of the present century. Dream books in in all languages continued to plow in cheap editions and the interpreters of dreams made a courteous or, at either rate, a comfortable living...If you want to micturate a full essay, disposition it on our website: Orderessay

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