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ing. The very want of external sense is the effect of the sleep of a 

 portion of the brain : and the want of intelligence is another 

 effect ; not the effect of the want of external sense. 



It is the same with the portion of the brain devoted to emotions, 

 notwithstanding the ideas calculated to excite them are perhaps 

 present. Few or more may be inactive. " Objects, scenes, and cir- 

 cumstances present themselves to the mind, unassociated with 

 those feelings with which they are usually or invariably accom- 

 panied in our waking hours. Thus in our dreams we may walk 

 on the brink of a precipice, or see ourselves doomed to imme- 

 diate destruction by the weapon of a foe or the fury of a tem- 

 pestuous sea, and yet feel not the slightest emotion of fear, though, 

 during the perfect activity of the brain, we may be naturally dis- 

 posed to the strong manifestation of this feeling ; again, we may 

 see the most extraordinary object or event without surprise, per- 

 form the most ruthless crime without compunction, and see what 

 in our waking hours would cause us unmitigated grief, without 

 the smallest feeling of sorrow. Dreams of this kind are more in- 

 coherent, and are subject to more rapid transitions than those in 

 which one or more organs of the feelings are also in a state of ac- 

 tivity." o We might as well ascribe want of emotion to the want of 

 external sense. 



Again, we sometimes have great emotion during sleep : 

 sexual desire, terror, rage, &c. P ; and we sometimes have great 

 intelligence, of which instances have been already given. But the 



Some Remarks on Dreaming, Somnambulism, and other States of partial Activity 

 of the Cerebral Faculties. Read to the London Phrenological Society, by Professor 

 Wheatstone, and published in the Lancet, March 31. 1832, through misprint, as 

 by Mr. Weisten ; and Dr. Macnish quotes it as mine, with a compliment to the 

 acuteness of the last sentence. (1. c. p. 76. sq.) But I am happy to say that there 

 is at King's College, as well as at University College, a professor who has for 

 many years been a decided phrenologist and avows his conviction. Excepting 

 this original remark, the paper is professedly nothing more than a translation and 

 illustration of Gall. I am indebted to it for my references to Coleridge, Tartini, 

 and M. Giron de Buzareingues, not to Dr. Macnish, who appears to have taken 

 them from it without acknowledgment, and after all is incorrect, as he puts 

 Cabanis for Franklin, and Condorcet for Condillac. 



P Porro hominum mentes magnis qua? motibus edunt? 

 Magna etiam saepe in somnis faciuntque geruntque. 

 Reges expugnant, capiuntur, praelia miscent ; 

 Tollunt clamores, quasi si jugulantur ibidem, 

 Multi depugnant, gemitusque doloribus edunt. Lucretius. 



