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touchableness to what is tangible。 If this is granted; it follows that

this Absolute is not imperfect; inplete; partial。 It must needs go

beyond the limited evidence of our sensations; and also give light to

what is invisible; music to the musical that silence dulls。 Thus mind

itself pels us to acknowledge that we are in a world of intellectual

order; beauty; and harmony。 The essences; or absolutes of these ideas;

necessarily dispel their opposites which belong with evil; disorder and

discord。 Thus deafness and blindness do not exist in the immaterial

mind; which is philosophically the real world; but are banished with the

perishable material senses。 Reality; of which visible things are the

symbol; shines before my mind。 While I walk about my chamber with

unsteady steps; my spirit sweeps skyward on eagle wings and looks out

with unquenchable vision upon the world of eternal beauty。

THE DREAM WORLD

XIII

THE DREAM WORLD

EVERYBODY takes his own dreams seriously; but yawns at the

breakfast…table when somebody else begins to tell the adventures of the

night before。 I hesitate; therefore; to enter upon an account of my

dreams; for it is a literary sin to bore the reader; and a scientific

sin to report the facts of a far country with more regard to point and

brevity than to plete and literal truth。 The psychologists have

trained a pack of theories and facts which they keep in leash; like so

many bulldogs; and which they let loose upon us whenever we depart from

the straight and narrow path of dream probability。 One may not even tell

an entertaining dream without being suspected of having liberally edited

it;……as if editing were one of the seven deadly sins; instead of a

useful and honourable occupation! Be it understood; then; that I am

discoursing at my own breakfast…table; and that no scientific man is

present to trip the autocrat。

I used to wonder why scientific men and others were always asking me

about my dreams。 But I am not surprised now; since I have discovered

what some of them believe to be the ordinary waking experience of one

who is both deaf and blind。 They think that I can know very little about

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