Sleep and dreams : two lectures delivered at the Bristol Literary and Philosophical Institution / by John Addington Symonds, M.D., F.R.S.

  • Symonds, John Addington, 1807-1871.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Sleep and dreams : two lectures delivered at the Bristol Literary and Philosophical Institution / by John Addington Symonds, M.D., F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Objects of study may be arranged under two great divisions; one consisting of those which must be sought in a wide in- vestigation of external nature; the other of such as are at all times, and in all places within our reach. The former are spread as far as our bodies, or our senses, aided, or un- aided, can extend; the latter we.carry about with us. The one class are objects of sensation, or outward observation ; the other of consciousness and internal reflection;—the world without, and the world within; this embracing the workings of our minds, our emotions, sentiments, affections, and pro- pensities ; the other, all the domain of matter and its attri- butes,—all that exists, whether we are living to observe it or not. Reviewing these two classes, we cannot help being struck with the overflowing provision which they present to our mental cravings; for while, on the one hand, the perceptive faculties have unbounded and delightful exercise amid the sublime and beautiful objects which the Creator has presented to us, in what we call the realms of Natural History, and Physical Philosophy; on the other, hand, when by accident confined to narrow limits of space, de- prived of one of our senses, or excluded from the objects of these senses, as in the shades of night, or in the solitude of sickness or captivity, we may turn inwards the mental eye, and see the wonders which the same Almighty Hand has fashioned in the mind and heart of man. B