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Man, just after his birth, is hard pressed by sleep for several months, after which he becomes more and more wakeful, day by day. The infant dreams [Note] from the very first, for it will suddenly awake with every symptom of alarm, and while asleep will imitate the action of sucking. There are some persons, however, who never dream; indeed, we find instances stated where it has been a fatal sign for a person to dream, who has never done so before. Here we find ourselves invited by a grand field of investigation, and one that is full of alleged proofs on both sides of the question, whether, when the mind is at rest in sleep, it has any foreknowledge of the future, and if so, by what process this is brought about, or whether this is not altogether a matter quite fortuitous, as most other things are? If we were to attempt to decide the question by instances quoted, we should find as many on the one side as on the other.
It is pretty generally agreed, that dreams, immediately after we have taken wine and food, or when we have just fallen asleep again after waking, have no signification whatever. Indeed, sleep is nothing else than the retiring [Note] of the mind into itself. It is quite evident that, besides man, horses, dogs, oxen, sheep, and goats have dreams; consequently, the same is supposed to be the case with all animals that are viviparous. As to those which are oviparous, it is a matter of uncertainty,
though it is equally certain that they do sleep. But we must now pass on to a description of the insects.
SUMMARY.—Remarkable facts, narratives, and observations, seven hundred and ninety-three.
ROMAN AUTHORS QUOTED.—Manilius, [Note] Cornelius Valerianus, [Note] the Acta Triumphorum, [Note] Umbricius Melior, [Note] Massurius Sabinus, [Note] Antistius Labeo, [Note] Trogus, [Note] Cremutius, [Note] M. Varro, [Note] Macer Æmilius, [Note] Melissus, [Note] Mucianus, [Note] Nepos, [Note] Fabius Pictor, [Note] T. Lucretius, [Note] Cornelius Celsus, [Note] Horace, [Note] Deculo, [Note] Hyginus, [Note] the Sasernæ, [Note] Nigidius, [Note] Mamilius Sura. [Note]
FOREIGN AUTHORS QUOTED.—Homer, Phemonoë, [Note] Phile-
mon, [Note] Bœus [Note] who wrote the Ornithogonia, Hylas [Note] who wrote an augury, Aristotle, [Note] Theophrastus, [Note] Callimachus, [Note] Æschylus, [Note] King Hiero, [Note] King Philometor, [Note] Archytas [Note] of Tarentum, Amphilochus [Note] of Athens, Anaxipolis [Note] of Thasos, Apollodorus [Note] of Lemnos, Aristophanes [Note] of Miletus, Antigonus [Note] of Cymæ, Agathocles [Note] of Chios, Apollonius [Note] of Pergamus, Aristander [Note] of Athens, Bacchius [Note] of Miletus, Bion [Note] of Soli, Chæreas [Note] of Athens, Diodorus [Note] of Priene, Dion [Note] of Colophon, Democritus, [Note] Diophanes [Note] of Nicæa, Epigenes [Note] of Rhodes, Euagon [Note] of Thasos, Euphronius [Note] of Athens, Juba, [Note] Androtion [Note] who wrote on Agriculture, Æschrion [Note] who wrote on Agriculture, Lysimachus [Note] who wrote on Agriculture, Dionysius [Note] who translated Mago, Diophanes [Note] who made an Epitome of Dionysius, Nicander, [Note] Onesicritus, [Note] Phylarchus, [Note] Hesiod. [Note]
ERRATA IN VOL. I.
Page vii. line 31, for Coisicius, read Cossicius.
" xvii. " 15, for pepole, read people.
" xviii. " 30, for Fabulosetas, read Fabulositas.
" 378, " 20, for Goat-Pens, read Goat-Pans.
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