The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-04-11


say that the conference of my dreams
Is due to overstudy and the subcon-
scious projection Of my knowledge OF
evolution into my dreams. In the first
place, | have never been jealous stu.
dent. | graduated last of my class.
cared more for athletics and-there Is
no reason should not confess it-more
for billiards.
Further, had no knowledge OF evo-
luton until was at college, whereas
in my childhood and youth had al
ready lived in my dreams all the de-
tails OF that other. long ago life. will
say, however, that these details were
mixed and incoherent until l came to
know the science Of evolution. Evolu.
ton was the key. II gave the explana-
ton. gave sanity to the FRANKS OF this
atavistic brain OF mine that. modern
and normal. harked back to past so
remote as to be contemporaneous with
the raw beginnings of mankind.
For In this past know of. man, as we
today know him, did not exist Ii was
in the period OF his becoming that |
must have lived and had my being.
The commonest dream of my early
childhood was something like this: 1t
seemed that was very small and that
l lay curled up In n sort of nest of
twigs and boughs. Sometimes was
lying ON my back.
In this position It seemed that spent
many hours, watching the play OF sun.
light on the foliage overhead and the
stirring OF the leaves by the wind. OF
ten the nest itself moved back and
forth when the wind was strong.
But always. while so lying In the
nest. was mastered by feeling as Of
tremendous space beneath me- I never
saw 1t, ! never peercd over the edge
of the nest to see. but I knew and
feared that space that lurked just be.
meath me and that ever threatened me
like nav of some all devouring mon
ster
This dream, in which I was quies.
cent and which was more like condi.
ton than an experience OF action, |
dreamed very often In my early child.
hood. But suddenly there would rush
into the very midst OF 1t strange forms
and ferocious happenings. the thunder
and crashing of storm or unfamiliar
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