The Washington times., 1923-08-15
Shall We Do Without Sleep
Some Day?
Higher Races of Apes Have Abolished Tails. Cant We
Abolish Sleep?

half developed being like man. hanging midway between
primitive barbarism and ultimate perfection should study the
insect tribes which appear have realized the possibilities
of development in their line.
The study the bee the spider and the
pon should fill hope. We should to ourselves
eff these tiny fragments of life develop highly what
may not hope for in the way Of ultimate possibiltes7
Our beginning is much full Of promise than the
beginnings Of tiny insect brothers.
This writer taking his advice which is most unusual
has been trying get acquainted with insects In the
hope Of cheering himself and getting new ideas
female scorpion acquire fresh veneraton for
the possibilities Of maternal devotion.
mother Gracch has well advertised because
she preferred her to jewey. The Russian mother
herself wolves instead of throwing her boy
the back of the sleigh in the usual way is also
praised But their devotion shrnks to nothing when
pared with that of any poor mother scorpion Of Mexcos
sandy tracts.
young scorpions arrive they climb to her
back half hundred of them She moves about with
them protecting them avoiding danger giving them the
light Meanwhile they feeding her body Her
get gradually slower and slower; finally they
simply an empty she'll We should dislike to see any such
exhibition Of tenderness among human beings but can't
Mr. Scorpion placed as was Captain Dreyus would sting
himself to death They determined race.
Spiders who construct tiny balloons with little cars all
complete wonderful creatures They chasms in their
as rudd In their little way and in psrfscv adeoua ate
fashion they have solved aerial navigation which s puzzles
u.s. We admire spiders and kill only those with yellow stom-
achs which are poison"
But up the present the most in
terestng suggestive creature He has developed and under
stands spicuue Improvement of the by careful
breeding-which with is yet theory, and
look down at the ant look to him because the strangely
active creature manages to do without sleep.
We human beings browse through thirty years Of three
score and ten but the ant awake and working all the time
the ant has managed to live without Sleep he has
do much in time? We take it for granted that sleep
essential we take everything else for granted We used
stopped that Sleep at time forced upon and
other animals.
The earth in its rolngs away from the sun once
In every hours In the darkness Of the beginning
said to himself: eff 90 walking around shall fail
into hole shall lie down and wait until the comes
again
He did all animals did before him millions Of years.
Since that time has conquered darkness Why should
he not ultimately conquer sleep?
We know that thin nervous highly organized do with
Tar less sleep than Others We know that old age requires
less sleep than youth
Can cultivate and develop the characteristics which
make sleep less necessary? Higher of apes
ished tails Cant we abolish sleep?
AS old age less sleep than babyhood 30 in our ma
turity human shall probably demand sleep
than now in racial babyhood Perhaps none at all viii
be needed.
that happens lives will doubled in value thew will
be complete The hours Of sunlight will be devoted
nation and admiration of natures beauties this
The hours Of darkness given sleep longer
worlds . -
we shall only really begin to live this when we shall
have settled all the little social questions here
and shall have begun the study of the universe
which a speck
The days of the future will given up to artistic eniov
men of the beautiful The nights will be devoted to intel
Man will LIVE.
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