Dreams

Title: Dreams Author: Henri Bergson Translator: Edwin E. Slosson Release Date: head 17, 2007 [EBook #20842] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** dent OF THIS figure GUTENBERG EBOOK DREAMS *** Produced by Bryan Ness, Hillary Fischer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of domain domain material from the Google Print project.) DREAMS BY HENRI BERGSON TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY EDWIN E. SLOSSON crude YORK B. W. HUEBSCH 1914 COPYRIGHT, 1913, By THE INDEPENDENT COPYRIGHT, 1914, By B. W. HUEBSCH firstborn printing, April, 1914 Second printing, November, 1914 PRINTED IN U. S. A. INTRODUCTION Before the dawn of history humankind was move in the study of ambition. The wise man among the ancients was preëminently the interpretive design of dreams. The ability to interpret successfully or plausibly was the high-speed road to royal favor, as Joseph and Daniel found it to be; unsuccessful person to give satisfaction in this respect led to banning from court or death. When a scholar laboriously translates a cuneiform tablet dug up from a Babylonian stilt where it has lain buried for five thousand years or more, the chances are that it depart turn out either an astrological treatise or a dream book. If the former, we look upon it with some self-indulgence; if the latter with thin contempt. For we know that the study of the stars, though undertaken for stingy reasons and pursued in the spirit of charlatanry, led at length to physical science, term the study of dreams has proved as ineffectual as the dreaming of them. Out of astrology grew astronomy. Out of oneiromancy has grown--nothing. That at least was good true up to the beginning of the pass on century. Dream books in in all languages continued to carry on in cheap editions and the interpreters of drea ms made a courteous or, at any rate, a com! fortable living...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderEssay.net

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