Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-18

German princess contain the following
statements "SloeD furnishes something
like an example oil the state OF the soul
after death, as the union Of the soul and
body is then, Do a great measure, Inter
rupted, and the soul ceases not from
activity, being employed 10 the produc-
ton OF dreams. These are usually dis
turhed By the remaining influence which
the senses exercise, and we know oy
experience that the more this influence
is suspended, which is the case In pro-
found sleep, the more regular and con-
nected are our dreams"
Blackwell afirms that 60 be able 70
see without the eye, to hear without the
ear and 90 feel without touching OBJ
iects, as we do In dreams, are facts
which afford direct proof that she per-
cipient principle is independent Of the
organs Of sense and lead TO the infer
ence that the material organization Of
the brain, bv which the impressions or
external objects ere originally conveyed
90 the mind, must be distinct from the
power that receives and retains these
Impressions; otherwise it would be i'm
possible 90 account for the activity Of the
perceptive power during the time when
the brain ceases 20 hold any direct CON-
municati0n with the material world.
Lord BrOugham cites the incOnceivab.e
rapidity of the minds operations as 3
proof OF it's Independence of matter and
capacity 90 exist without it, and after
adducing a multitude of facts chiefly
connected with the phenomena OF
dreams says that nothing can be con-
ceived better calculated than these facts
90 demonstrate the extreme agility or
the mental powers, their total diversity
from any material substance or action.
Nothing better adapted TO satisfy us
that the nature Of the mind is consistent
with it's existence apart from the body.
There is 20 denial by the advocates
OF tue latter view that dreams can Ordi-
narily be accounted for on the hypOthe-
sis generally accepted by medical men.
Impaired digestion, a feverlsh condi-
ton Of the body, intense nervous strain,
and other physical causes, 10 is ad-
mittej, may be- reasonably adduced 20
explain the phenomena. But there are
we'll authenticated cases OF dreams Of
character so remarkable as TO render
the theory of physical causes wholly
iuaDDlicab'e 90 them. They seem 70
demonstrate the power OF the soul, dur
ing sleep, 90 evolve clear ideas and new
Developments of thought which are not
the result OF automatic or unconscious
reflex action.
Coleridce tells us that "kubla Kahn"
was composed entirely while be slept,
''the images rising up before him as
things with a parallel production OF
the corresponding expressions, without
any sensation or consciousness OF effort
For a man of his peculiar temperament
that does not seem 50 strange an eXDe-
Renee: but that the famous mathema-
tician and philosopher, C0ndOrcet saw
fn bis dreams the final stage of 3 diff
cult calculation, which had puzzled him
during the day, is O most extraordinary
fact, and one that is scarcely 20 be eX-
blamed by o reference 60 any abnormal
bodily conditions. But III we admit the
soundness of ColQuhOun's doctrine, we
shall have an adequate means Of expla-
nation. RE maintained that dreaming
is the exercise Of an original spiritual
energy; that 10 is an effort OF the soul
20 manifest itself free f.om material
tramme's; that all sleep is accom- panied
with dreaming, and that 10 the case Of
the sOundest sleep, dreams are not re-
membersd because the soul has not
notified the sensorium Of them. There
fore we only catch glimpses of the souls
activity BOZ sleep when the seusibility OF
the c0rp0rsal organs is not altogether
suspended, and these glimDses are called
ireams.-NClC York Times.