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Dreams, by Henri Bergson
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Title: Dreams
Author: Henri Bergson
Translator: Edwin E. Slosson
Release Date: March 17, 2007 [EBook #20842]
Language: English
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DREAMS
BY
HENRI BERGSON
TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY
EDWIN E. SLOSSON
NEW YORK
B. W. HUEBSCH
1914
COPYRIGHT, 1913, By THE INDEPENDENT
COPYRIGHT, 1914, By B. W. HUEBSCH
First printing, April, 1914
Second printing, November, 1914
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
INTRODUCTION
Before the dawn of history mankind was engaged in the study of dreaming. The wise man among the ancients was preëminently the interpreter of dreams. The ability to interpret successfully or plausibly was the quickest road to royal favor, as Joseph and Daniel found it to be; failure to give satisfaction in this respect led to banishment from court or death. When a scholar laboriously translates a cuneiform tablet dug up from a Babylonian mound where it has lain buried for five thousand years or more, the chances a