The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-11-25 00:00:00

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sometimes change a *hie man into a childish Warn:
a being without a mind Bet 44,raretul has itaturei
hfilleka of snit Madura iwirliortitie of a roan, the iweisi,
that of ell the @sterns! eccidellis,, to wt.ich humanity
saNtict, this ha:spent sits. pipit d.tar. But so
!alien see it lialipening td' long and hibilial
perance.
Wheibei Wiwi Birk, iseuillei iiersipy thilinet
epartmeiiti in the brain, ii known only to that Al.
mighty Power thdt Warted and nrganided it—tits cad
Wan the external Onsets of Mucci'lsr motion lh alt the
Illidabers of he bOdy) thnsgh his iirbinior tlliAbite, or
Muting tsoqi., Is unkuonn in man. 0,11 elle
ternal motions are somotimiA the.l.d of Wen ion,'
lend sometimes not. If we itti sitting end intend to
rises or standing and intend to 1, or wtflk, the
limbs obey that intention as if the) heard the order
•Iva. Het *p IWO a thousand motions cart; (Cy,
assithat et well soaking as sleeping, that list. oei
odor Woollen to direct thesis. Eith meia,efq arid
as If it bad a will or niiiid of its nen. Men gneernd
the whole, when int fot..aseti ea totem; but its the
interim, the *petrel ports; like little subirbw, govern
themselves, without consulting thi sovtirolgn. But
all these motions, white•er be the generating rause;•
are eaters.' and visible. Bei *HI respect to 114
brain•no ocular observation can be made upon
All is mystery-.all is darkness, in that saoinb of
thought.
Whether the btsln is tti mist of mallet; In Contintisi
rest; whether it hes a vibrating compulsive motion;
or a besting and (Aline motion, like matter in fee:.
montation; whether different punt of the brain 1,44
different motions acceeding to the faculty that is tow.'
ployed, tie it the 'invitation, the judgment, or the
memory, man knew. nothing of. He limbos, not the
cause of his uwu wit; his swot brain conceall tr front
him.
Compsylog invisible by visible things, es inetsphy.s •
tricot ow sometimes be compared to physical thing.,
the operations of these distinct and WWII! (scuttled '
have sore resembleneetit the mechdniim of
watch. Tbe stein assdesi Which pats all in moos
.thou, cornrow:owls to the Imagination; the pendulum,
or balance, which corrects and reetilistes that 'notion,'
corresponds to the judgment ; •and eke henJ shd '
like the memory, record the operational.
Now, in proportion as the faculties ,jeepi
slumber, or keep awake, during Os* cositineence of '
a dream, in that proportionwitt the dream be ressouable
or frantic, remembered or forgotten.
If the,. be say facet/ in mental twin{ that hetet
sleeps, it is that volatile thing—,the Imagination. Thai
case is different with the judgment and nietilnif. TM
sedate and sober constitution of the judgment easily
disposes it to rest ; and as to the memory, it retords
in silence, anti is active only when it is c.11.d upon.
That the judgment semi goes to sleep only be per.
ceiwed by our sometimes beginning to dream before
we are fully asleep ourselves. Some random thooght4
run in the mind, end we start, as it were, into r.col-
- that we are dreaming between sleeping and,
waking.

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If the judgment sleep while the imagination keep'
awake, the dream will be a riotous assemblage of
miabapen images and rusting ideas ; and the more
active the imagination is, the wilder the dream wilt
be. ,The most inconsistent and most impossible
things will appear right, because that faculty whose
province it is to keep order is in a state of tibiae,.
The master of the school Is gone oat, and the buys
Ire in an uproar.
If the memory sleeps, we skull have no other knowledge 4
the dream than that we have dreamt, wi.hout knowing what It
wasehoet. In this case. it Is sensation rather than recollection
that acts. The dream has given us some sense of pain or trouble,
and we feel it as a hurt. rather thaw remember it a. a vielon.
If memory only slumbers, we shall Bove a faint remembrance
albs dream, and after a few minutes it will sometimes happen
that the prieei pie passages of the dream will ee ur to es more,
fully. The tame of this is, that the memory will sometimes con-
tinue slumbering or sleeping alner we are awake ourselves; and
that so fully, that it Naas. aad sometimes does happen. that we
do not immediately remillect where we are, nor what we have
been about, or have to do. Boit when the memory starts into
waketeisters. it brings the knowledge of these things back upon
e like a Good of Hem. aid sometime. the dream With it.
Rut the most carbon circumstance of the mind, in a state of
demo. Is the power it ha. to lieemwe the agent or eeery person.
character. alld Mai at which it dregs,. Ti- carries on can versa-
lion with several, ask. questions. bears answers, e.ves and re- '
wives ieformation. and it acts all these itself.
Out however various mod extensive the hang amide may bet
in the creation of Midges and ideas', it atone( supply the place
of memory. with respect, to things we' base formates when
awake. For clad*: if we bare forgoitelt the moat of a per.
son, and dream of seesaw him, and asking him his Dame, he can-
um tall it. for it is ourselves asking norm-Ives the question.
Bat though the imagination cannot 'apply the plate or real
memory. it has the wild factilty of counters; ising the memory.
Is dreams of persons it never knew. Rad talk tig with them as it
remembered them as old aeosaintances,
It relates circumstances that never happened; and tells them' .
as if they had happened, It goes to places that never existed,
and knows where all themeless and Wesel are. AIM they had
been there before. The Kenai it creates often appear as scenes
it remembered. It will sourethsees act a dream vr,thin a dreamt
and in the dehosion of dreaming. ten a dream it never dreamed,
;ad tell it as it were from memory It may also he remarked,
that the imaginglion, he a dream. has no idea of time. It comsat
maly by circumstances; and if a succession of Circumstances
min a dream that would require a length of time to accost-
them, it will &prear to the dreatner that a Mork of thee
41418a1 thereto liaseigassrd aim: ;
Am this is the eof mind ladrainer, It may & M titer edd
diet every pdrsow s end once in every 14 hours ; for Were he tti
sift to the tay as he derails in the night. he would be congaed ow
a luastle. .In a state of teakettles% dose there fatuities befog
all aettoorind acting in notion, ementete to national mom. In
I *detail It Os alherwise, and therefore that meta which is called.
Insapity ajpeers to be no other time arowo of those /acid.
I thi. got a emeadom of the j Wenn( ti *skeet:ea, um(
sisits
so
wikepperietteed during sleep r mit meow', into whiele
lea fallen, is that cessation of all the faculties of
emir* oesiihre, When we harper/ to woke btfore Out
view of the tided, bow absurd it to to place aoy roe
Mlle._
Emma epee dreams.

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