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1 1 | 1~WITH regard to sleep and
2 2 | 2~We must now proceed to inquire
3 3 | 3~The point for consideration
4 2 | between the head and the abdomen. This is sanguineous animals
5 | about
6 3 | central chamber that the [above-mentioned] separation takes place.
7 2 | severally; while all are accompanied by a common power, in virtue
8 1 | extends only to things to be accomplished by the agency of Man, or
9 | according
10 3 | organ of sense-perception to account for the occurrence of waking
11 3 | proposed barely conceivable accounts of the refrigeration which
12 2 | the kind of movement or action, taking place within their
13 3 | rendering it unable to actualize its powers; arising of necessity (
14 1 | that it should continue actualizing its powers perpetually.~
15 1 | some of both.~Further, in addition to these questions, we must
16 1 | he who follows it will admit this [viz. that they do
17 3 | and to its not readily admitting the evaporation. This, then,
18 1 | whether they are aquatic, aerial, or terrestrial, since fishes
19 2 | light of these instances [afforded by sanguineous animals,
20 3 | rallying to meet it cools [the aforesaid parts] deprives their native
21 | afterwards
22 | almost
23 | along
24 2 | they should not go to rest altogether, would have been more reasonably
25 | among
26 2 | conservation of the [due amount of] heat in this part that
27 3 | assertion which is proved by anatomy-it is manifest that, when the
28 2 | have been more reasonably anticipated. But, according to the explanation
29 3 | called the "great" and the "aorta"". It is in the central
30 2 | to which either of these appertains; inasmuch as these are best,
31 1 | those which have these have appetite as well; but plants have
32 3 | this reason they have large appetites, though spare and lean;
33 2 | taught by experience, men apply to sleep this metaphorical
34 1 | continues perceiving beyond the appointed time-limit of its continuous
35 3 | drowsiness are especially apt to come on after meals;
36 1 | sleep, whether they are aquatic, aerial, or terrestrial,
37 1 | affections of the same: examples are-health and sickness, beauty and
38 3 | originates, and whence do they arise? Now, since it is when it
39 2 | of exercise has neither arisen in some casual organ of
40 2 | it is that persons when aroused remember their dreams, but
41 3 | carried up can no longer ascend, but is too great in quantity [
42 3 | sun’s heat is, when it has ascended to the upper regions, cooled
43 3 | large quantity of moisture ascending. It is reasonable, too,
44 3 | unconsciousness, a certain form of asphyxia, and swooning, all produce
45 3 | of these is the heart-an assertion which is proved by anatomy-it
46 2 | several types of cause (for we assign equally the "final", the "
47 3 | the blood formed after the assimilation of food is especially in
48 1 | need sense-perception to assist these processes.~
49 2 | sensory activity] subsists in association chiefly with the faculty
50 2 | that he sees or hears (for, assuredly, it is not by the special
51 3 | easy flow]. Nor are the "atrabilious" addicted to sleep, for
52 1 | affections should perpetually attach itself to the same animal,
53 2 | special senses; because, if it attaches itself to one of them but
54 3 | arises from the evaporation attendant upon the process of nutrition.
55 2 | movement is, in every animal, attended with some sense-perception,
56 2 | of sight, hearing to the auditory sense, and so on with the
57 1 | must be susceptible of awakening. Accordingly, almost all
58 3 | exceedingly hot.~A person awakes from sleep when digestion
59 1 | that often it might well baffle one’s observation to decide
60 3 | solutions thus proposed barely conceivable accounts of
61 1 | are-health and sickness, beauty and ugliness, strength and
62 | becomes
63 2 | undivided wings] as wasps and bees; also in flies and such
64 3 | withdrawn; and this, when it befalls them, causes unconsciousness,
65 | before
66 | beginning
67 3 | a scientific view of the beginnings of the process, and come
68 3 | the upper and outer parts] begins to fail, he grows cool,
69 2 | the highest end for all beings to which either of these
70 2 | whence it follows that sleep belongs of necessity to each animal.
71 2 | continuously, rest is necessary and beneficial; and since, taught by experience,
72 3 | is as if they derived no benefit from what they eat. The
73 1 | nutrient part does its own work better when (the animal) is asleep
74 3 | what they eat. The dark bile, too, being itself naturally
75 3 | within five months [after birth] they do not even turn the
76 1 | and weakness, sight and blindness, hearing and deafness. This
77 2 | Moreover, persons who have the bloodvessels in the neck compressed become
78 3 | spare and lean; for their bodily condition is as if they
79 2 | is obvious that that of breathing and of the cooling process
80 1 | all such creatures is of brief duration, so that often
81 3 | however, be more properly the business of a different treatise
82 2 | this metaphorical term, calling it a "rest" [from the strain
83 | cannot
84 3 | which] the hot substance carries upwards, this latter, like
85 3 | naturally tends to move [and carry other things] upwards, but
86 2 | has neither arisen in some casual organ of sense, nor from
87 3 | phlegm" (which explains why catarrhs are seen to proceed from
88 2 | animals].~For if sleeping were caused by the special senses having
89 3 | matter inwards [towards its centre], due to the cause above
90 3 | It is in the central chamber that the [above-mentioned]
91 3 | elsewhere, the heart. Now of the chambers in the heart the central
92 2 | of sense, nor from some chance cause, but when, as has
93 3 | observed above, sleep is not co-extensive with any and every impotence
94 3 | upper regions, cooled by the coldness of the latter, and becoming
95 2 | of the connatural spirit colliding with the diaphragm); and
96 2 | sensibles, e.g. sound or colour); and since this [common
97 3 | in the heart the central communicates with each of the two others.
98 3 | size of the upper parts compared with the lower during infancy,
99 3 | quantity within a small compass from out the surrounding
100 3 | heat of all its power, and compels it to retire? Moreover,
101 3 | sleep when digestion is completed: when the heat, which had
102 2 | bloodvessels in the neck compressed become insensible. But sleep
103 3 | the veins, and forcibly compresses the passage through which
104 3 | that sleep is a sort of concentration, or natural recoil, of the
105 2 | treated in our speculations concerning the Soul); it is therefore
106 2 | term "necessity" in its conditional sense, meaning that if an
107 3 | an animal to exist if the conditions which render it an animal
108 3 | affected is presently asleep. A confirmation of this appears from considering
109 1 | some movement in his own consciousness. If waking, then, consists
110 3 | released from the heaviness consequent on taking food. We have
111 3 | upwards in a mass, is then of considerable quantity. When, therefore,
112 3 | 3~The point for consideration next in order to the preceding
113 3 | confirmation of this appears from considering the things which induce
114 1 | its loosening or remission constitutes the being awake. But no
115 3 | and purest blood is that contained in the head, while the thickest
116 1 | lose power] from [too long continued] seeing, and must give it
117 1 | organ, this also, if it continues perceiving beyond the appointed
118 1 | appointed time-limit of its continuous working period, will lose
119 2 | to itself move always and continuously, rest is necessary and beneficial;
120 3 | veins about the brain itself contributes to its being kept cool,
121 2 | when the sense organ which controls all the others, and to which
122 3 | undergoing a change, is converted into blood, and makes its
123 3 | element [in the "evaporation"] conveyed upwards by the hot, along
124 1 | if the above reasoning be convincing to any one, he who follows
125 3 | all parts of the body the coolest. Therefore, as moisture
126 3 | the foods eaten is then copious. It also follows certain
127 3 | without a brain that which corresponds to it, is of all parts of
128 3 | some other affection which counteracts [this easy flow]. Nor are
129 1 | following considerations. The criterion by which we know the waking
130 3 | turn back, and change its current to and fro, like a tide-race
131 3 | poppy, mandragora, wine, darnel, produce a heaviness in
132 3 | have come to be regarded as dead, say many things while in
133 1 | and blindness, hearing and deafness. This is also clear from
134 3 | for example, sleep a great deal, because of the food being
135 1 | partake only of growth and decay, e.g. not of plants, because
136 1 | baffle one’s observation to decide whether they sleep or not.
137 3 | who have fallen into a deep trance, and have come to
138 3 | for in them, as in persons deeply intoxicated, there is ever
139 1 | considerations. For an animal is defined as such by its possessing
140 2 | especially man]. Now, it has been definitely settled already in another
141 2 | on which these affections depend. Since, then, some animals
142 3 | cools [the aforesaid parts] deprives their native heat of all
143 3 | condition is as if they derived no benefit from what they
144 3 | unwholesome, becoming condensed, descends and cools the hot. The tenuity
145 3 | cooling which takes place, despite the fact that the evaporation
146 3 | go into these matters in detail would, however, be more
147 3 | stated elsewhere, the main determinant of the matter? For the brain,
148 2 | origination is one of three determinate loci, viz. that which lies
149 1 | is as yet forthcoming to determine whether they sleep, but
150 1 | if the waking period is determined by this fact, that in it
151 2 | animals as are imperfectly developed, a class of which we have
152 2 | spirit colliding with the diaphragm); and since movement is,
153 3 | nurses (for it makes no difference, doubtless, whether the
154 2 | sensory faculty is one, though differing as a faculty of perception
155 3 | until the food has been digested.~For, as has been observed
156 3 | should drink them [if at all] diluted with water and in small
157 1 | animals, on the contrary, no direct sensible evidence is as
158 3 | growth predominates in the direction of the former. Hence also
159 2 | and has the faculty of discerning, that sweet things are different
160 2 | or both together that one discerns, and has the faculty of
161 2 | The next question to be discussed is that of the kind of movement
162 3 | treated of all this when discussing the subject of nutrition,
163 3 | mark whereof appears in the disproportionately large size of the upper
164 1 | that the powerlessness or dissolution of activity will be so or
165 3 | operates as a solvent, and the dissolved matter acts, if not cold,
166 3 | its return downwards it distends the veins, and forcibly
167 1 | we have already elsewhere distinguished what are called the parts
168 3 | it makes no difference, doubtless, whether the infants themselves,
169 3 | not cases of sleeping or dreaming].~As we observed above,
170 3 | matter evaporated must be driven onwards to a certain point,
171 3 | cooling process his eye-lids droop. Accordingly [in sleep]
172 3 | sleepiness] and nodding [drowsily] all seem affected in this
173 3 | This explains why fits of drowsiness are especially apt to come
174 3 | the case of a person when drowsy. But where it [the heat
175 1 | such creatures is of brief duration, so that often it might
176 3 | as well as those who are dwarf-like, or have abnormally large
177 3 | them; while in the case of dwarfs and those whose heads are
178 3 | no benefit from what they eat. The dark bile, too, being
179 3 | evaporation from the foods eaten is then copious. It also
180 3 | all, whether potable or edible, for instance poppy, mandragora,
181 2 | equally the "final", the "efficient", the "material", and the "
182 3 | affection is the cause of the embryo’s remaining at rest in the
183 2 | function or that one does not employ them; and that it does not
184 3 | that, as the stomach when empty is hot, while replenishment
185 2 | every creature which is endowed by nature with the power
186 2 | nature, it must have certain endowments; and, if these are to belong
187 1 | if there be an animal not endued with sense-perception, it
188 2 | Hence we must consider the entire subject in the light of
189 3 | seizures; for sleep is like epilepsy, and, in a sense, actually
190 3 | also they are subject to epileptic seizures; for sleep is like
191 3 | impotence. Moreover it is an established fact that some persons in
192 3 | of nutrition. The matter evaporated must be driven onwards to
193 | even
194 | ever
195 1 | contrary, no direct sensible evidence is as yet forthcoming to
196 1 | opposites, and sleep is evidently a privation of waking. For
197 3 | process, and come to know what exactly happens to the primary organ
198 1 | affections of the same: examples are-health and sickness,
199 3 | that the evaporation is exceedingly hot.~A person awakes from
200 | except
201 3 | the evaporation upwards is excessive. Those [on the contrary]
202 3 | water once more; just so the excrementitious evaporation, when carried
203 1 | we assume that one who is exercising sense-perception is awake,
204 1 | this be capable of separate existence; in its potentiality, indeed,
205 1 | living bodies, capable of existing without the other parts,
206 2 | waking acts, has been already explained in the work "Of Problems".~
207 2 | the same affection must extend to all the special senses;
208 1 | supposing it possible, it extends only to things to be accomplished
209 3 | and in cases of lethargy. Extreme youth also has this effect;
210 3 | found a difficulty on the facts that sleep is most oppressive
211 3 | and outer parts] begins to fail, he grows cool, and owing
212 3 | swooned should in this state fall asleep, the phantasm also
213 3 | Persons, too, who have fallen into a deep trance, and
214 3 | restless movement is a marked feature in the case of a person
215 3 | hot water poured on them feel a sudden shiver of cold,
216 1 | sense-perception have likewise the feeling of pain and pleasure, while
217 3 | lower, i.e. the parts at the feet and in the interior of the
218 3 | secretions, as happens with fever-patients and in cases of lethargy.
219 3 | parts, in infants, are so filled with nutriment that within
220 2 | for we assign equally the "final", the "efficient", the "
221 1 | of sleeping is necessary. Finally, if such affection is Sleep,
222 3 | and the purer blood. The finest and purest blood is that
223 3 | upwards, this latter, like a fire when fresh logs are laid
224 1 | aerial, or terrestrial, since fishes of all kinds, and molluscs,
225 3 | mass. This explains why fits of drowsiness are especially
226 3 | nutriment enters the parts fitted for its reception, the evaporation
227 3 | with nutriment that within five months [after birth] they
228 2 | wasps and bees; also in flies and such creatures. And
229 3 | forces the hot back again and flows downwards. Hence it is that
230 1 | This is also clear from the following considerations. The criterion
231 3 | the evaporation from the foods eaten is then copious. It
232 3 | which had been previously forced together in large quantity
233 3 | quantity [to do so], it forces the hot back again and flows
234 3 | distends the veins, and forcibly compresses the passage through
235 1 | it is possible or not to foresee the future (in dreams),
236 2 | the "material", and the "formal" as causes), in the first
237 3 | It also follows certain forms of fatigue; for fatigue
238 1 | sensible evidence is as yet forthcoming to determine whether they
239 1 | in it sense-perception is free; if in the case of some
240 3 | latter, like a fire when fresh logs are laid upon it, is
241 2 | humming noise, due to the friction of the connatural spirit
242 3 | change its current to and fro, like a tide-race in a narrow
243 3 | render it an animal be not fulfilled), i.e. for the sake of its
244 1 | possible or not to foresee the future (in dreams), and if it be
245 1 | all animals sleep may be gathered from these considerations.
246 2 | perception in relation to each genus of sensibles, e.g. sound
247 1 | continued] seeing, and must give it up; and so it is with
248 3 | This last point, indeed, gives rise to a difficulty; for
249 3 | parts] begins to fail, he grows cool, and owing to this
250 3 | sleep, and their subsequent habitual seizures occur in sleep,
251 1 | have been seen sleeping. "Hard-eyed" creatures and insects manifestly
252 2 | perceives that he sees or hears (for, assuredly, it is not
253 3 | the origin of these is the heart-an assertion which is proved
254 3 | things, though they possess heating properties, are productive
255 | hereafter
256 | him
257 3 | in sleep, not in waking hours. For when the spirit [evaporation]
258 2 | are perceived to make a humming noise, due to the friction
259 | I
260 2 | should necessarily all go idle and become motionless simultaneously.
261 2 | sense-perception in animals originates ill the same part of the organism
262 3 | Moreover, some kinds of illness have this same effect; those
263 3 | trance have still had the imaginative faculty in play. This last
264 2 | except such animals as are imperfectly developed, a class of which
265 3 | are abnormally large, the impetus of the evaporation upwards
266 2 | from the strain of movement implied in sense-perception]: we
267 1 | especially promoted, a fact which implies that creatures do not need
268 2 | not consist merely in an inability to exercise the sense-perceptions;
269 1 | on the one hand, or of inanimate bodies, on the other.]~Now,
270 2 | sleep supervenes when such incapacity of exercise has neither
271 3 | persons whose veins are inconspicuous, as well as those who are
272 3 | considering the things which induce sleep; they all, whether
273 3 | compared with the lower during infancy, which is due to the fact
274 1 | of sense-perception, the inference is clear, that the organ,
275 2 | strength-in creatures which inhale, the holding of that breath
276 2 | the neck compressed become insensible. But sleep supervenes when
277 2 | subject in the light of these instances [afforded by sanguineous
278 1 | are not attributes of pure intelligence, on the one hand, or of
279 3 | parts at the feet and in the interior of the body, are hot.~Yet
280 1 | or always awake, without intermission; for all organs which have
281 2 | sense-perception, either internal or external, in the primary
282 3 | them, as in persons deeply intoxicated, there is ever a large quantity
283 3 | recoil, of the hot matter inwards [towards its centre], due
284 2 | them can exist apart from it-a subject of which we have
285 3 | the heat which tends to keep them erect (man alone, among
286 3 | contributes to its being kept cool, and to its not readily
287 2 | discussed is that of the kind of movement or action, taking
288 3 | sleep, unless, indeed, they labour under some other affection
289 2 | sensory organs also must lack power to perceive; but when
290 3 | fire when fresh logs are laid upon it, is itself cooled,
291 | last
292 3 | especially] occurs [and lasts] until the purest part of
293 | later
294 3 | appetites, though spare and lean; for their bodily condition
295 3 | fever-patients and in cases of lethargy. Extreme youth also has
296 3 | i.e. they are unable to lift up the head or the eye-lids.
297 2 | the entire subject in the light of these instances [afforded
298 3 | for the matter, both the liquid and the corporeal, which
299 2 | one of three determinate loci, viz. that which lies midway
300 2 | movement originates. This locus of origination is one of
301 3 | like a fire when fresh logs are laid upon it, is itself
302 1 | must lose power] from [too long continued] seeing, and must
303 1 | sense-perception, while its loosening or remission constitutes
304 3 | as stated elsewhere, the main determinant of the matter?
305 | make
306 3 | Accordingly, the beginning of this malady takes place with many during
307 3 | edible, for instance poppy, mandragora, wine, darnel, produce a
308 3 | proved by anatomy-it is manifest that, when the external
309 1 | Hard-eyed" creatures and insects manifestly assume the posture of sleep;
310 3 | Hence restless movement is a marked feature in the case of a
311 2 | the "efficient", the "material", and the "formal" as causes),
312 2 | in its conditional sense, meaning that if an animal is to
313 2 | cases of swooning. A swoon means just such impotence of perception,
314 3 | ascends, the cold rallying to meet it cools [the aforesaid
315 1 | the hand and every other member which has a function. Now,
316 3 | due to the cause above mentioned. Hence restless movement
317 2 | that it does not consist merely in an inability to exercise
318 2 | men apply to sleep this metaphorical term, calling it a "rest" [
319 2 | loci, viz. that which lies midway between the head and the
320 3 | presented itself to his mind might be regarded as a dream.
321 2 | animals possess all the modes of sense-perception, and
322 3 | effect; those arising from moist and hot secretions, as happens
323 1 | fishes of all kinds, and molluscs, as well as all others which
324 3 | nutriment that within five months [after birth] they do not
325 1 | in its origin sometimes morbid, sometimes not, so that
326 2 | from this it is that both motion and the controlling sense-perception
327 2 | necessarily all go idle and become motionless simultaneously. For the
328 3 | the hot. The tenuity or narrowness of the veins about the brain
329 3 | aforesaid parts] deprives their native heat of all its power, and
330 2 | powers simultaneously, should necessarily all go idle and become motionless
331 1 | creature that sleeps must needs have the organ of sense-perception.
332 3 | person down and causes him to nod, but when it has actually
333 3 | down [by sleepiness] and nodding [drowsily] all seem affected
334 2 | perceived to make a humming noise, due to the friction of
335 | nothing
336 2 | with which one perceives objects in general. For when this
337 2 | animals]. This is clearly observable in the holoptera [insects
338 1 | might well baffle one’s observation to decide whether they sleep
339 3 | said, in order that we may obtain a scientific view of the
340 2 | regards movement, it is obvious that that of breathing and
341 3 | cools it by the movement it occasions, so the passages and tracts
342 3 | subsequent habitual seizures occur in sleep, not in waking
343 3 | sense-perception to account for the occurrence of waking and sleep. For
344 | off
345 | often
346 3 | is most oppressive in its onset after meals, and that wine,
347 3 | evaporated must be driven onwards to a certain point, then
348 2 | analogous to, those which operate in sanguineous animals;
349 1 | animal, inasmuch as they are opposites, and sleep is evidently
350 3 | facts that sleep is most oppressive in its onset after meals,
351 2 | ill the same part of the organism in which movement originates.
352 2 | originates. This locus of origination is one of three determinate
353 | out
354 3 | the heat in the upper and outer parts] begins to fail, he
355 3 | in sleep] the upper and outward parts are cool, but the
356 1 | likewise the feeling of pain and pleasure, while those
357 3 | forcibly compresses the passage through which respiration
358 3 | movement it occasions, so the passages and tracts in the head are
359 | per
360 2 | holoptera, when they move, are perceived to make a humming noise,
361 1 | this also, if it continues perceiving beyond the appointed time-limit
362 2 | move in their sleep, and perform many acts like waking acts,
363 3 | unconsciousness, and afterwards phantasy.~Or are the solutions thus
364 3 | brain, is condensed into a "phlegm" (which explains why catarrhs
365 3 | be formed].~Hence it is plain from what has been said
366 1 | the being awake. But no plant can partake in either of
367 3 | the imaginative faculty in play. This last point, indeed,
368 3 | or edible, for instance poppy, mandragora, wine, darnel,
369 1 | is defined as such by its possessing sense-perception; and we
370 1 | insects manifestly assume the posture of sleep; but the sleep
371 3 | sleep; they all, whether potable or edible, for instance
372 3 | wheresoever such secretion is potentially present [i.e. tends to be
373 3 | those who have hot water poured on them feel a sudden shiver
374 3 | consideration next in order to the preceding is:-What are the processes
375 3 | to the fact that growth predominates in the direction of the
376 3 | phantasm also which then presented itself to his mind might
377 3 | the animal so affected is presently asleep. A confirmation of
378 3 | surrounding part, has once more prevailed, and when a separation has
379 3 | the heat, which had been previously forced together in large
380 3 | if not cold, like food prior to digestion. Moreover,
381 1 | and sleep is evidently a privation of waking. For contraries,
382 3 | of sleep, for it is not probable that sleep should be a process
383 2 | explained in the work "Of Problems".~
384 2 | and holding the breath produces strength-in creatures which
385 3 | heating properties, are productive of sleep, for it is not
386 3 | fact that some persons in a profound trance have still had the
387 1 | growth are then especially promoted, a fact which implies that
388 3 | would, however, be more properly the business of a different
389 3 | though they possess heating properties, are productive of sleep,
390 3 | Or are the solutions thus proposed barely conceivable accounts
391 3 | heart-an assertion which is proved by anatomy-it is manifest
392 2 | spirit" is seen alternately puffed up and subsiding in the
393 1 | waking are not attributes of pure intelligence, on the one
394 3 | the more corporeal and the purer blood. The finest and purest
395 2 | which it is due, and its quality as an affection. Now, since
396 2 | their condition.]~The next question to be discussed is that
397 1 | Further, in addition to these questions, we must also inquire what
398 2 | explanation just given, all is quite clear regarding those also.
399 3 | even turn the neck [sc. to raise the head]; for in them,
400 3 | substance ascends, the cold rallying to meet it cools [the aforesaid
401 3 | upwards, but when it has reached the parts above [becoming
402 3 | kept cool, and to its not readily admitting the evaporation.
403 3 | case is not great. For this reason they have large appetites,
404 3 | moisture ascending. It is reasonable, too, to think that this
405 2 | altogether, would have been more reasonably anticipated. But, according
406 1 | sleep, but if the above reasoning be convincing to any one,
407 3 | nutrition, but must here recapitulate what was there said, in
408 3 | must first take food and receive growth, and in all cases
409 3 | the latter again acts as receiver from each, respectively,
410 3 | the parts fitted for its reception, the evaporation arising
411 3 | conceivable accounts of the refrigeration which takes place, while,
412 1 | 1~WITH regard to sleep and waking, we
413 2 | given, all is quite clear regarding those also. For, when the
414 2 | sense-perception originate. Now, as regards movement, it is obvious
415 3 | has ascended to the upper regions, cooled by the coldness
416 2 | faculty of perception in relation to each genus of sensibles,
417 1 | potentiality, indeed, and in its relationships, it is separable.~Likewise
418 3 | awake from sleep, being released from the heaviness consequent
419 3 | the cause of the embryo’s remaining at rest in the womb at first.
420 3 | if the conditions which render it an animal be not fulfilled),
421 3 | the primary sense-organ, rendering it unable to actualize its
422 3 | when empty is hot, while replenishment cools it by the movement
423 3 | downwards, and by its return has repulsed the hot, sleep comes on,
424 3 | acts as receiver from each, respectively, of the two vessels, called
425 3 | the passage through which respiration is effected. This explains
426 3 | cause above mentioned. Hence restless movement is a marked feature
427 1 | supra-human agency, and which result from the workings of Nature,
428 3 | power, and compels it to retire? Moreover, when much food
429 3 | first. Also, as a general rule, persons whose veins are
430 3 | to be regarded as dead, say many things while in this
431 3 | not even turn the neck [sc. to raise the head]; for
432 3 | order that we may obtain a scientific view of the beginnings of
433 2 | this [cooling process] per se we shall treat hereafter.
434 2 | just stated, it has its seat in the primary organ with
435 3 | other parts wheresoever such secretion is potentially present [
436 3 | arising from moist and hot secretions, as happens with fever-patients
437 | seem
438 2 | and waking originate, is self-evident [being that in which movement
439 2 | dream is in a certain way a sense-impression. But of them we have to
440 1 | the contrary, no direct sensible evidence is as yet forthcoming
441 2 | relation to each genus of sensibles, e.g. sound or colour);
442 1 | its relationships, it is separable.~Likewise it is clear that [
443 1 | or not this be capable of separate existence; in its potentiality,
444 3 | part of this blood has been separated off into the upper parts
445 2 | it has been definitely settled already in another work
446 2 | on with the other senses severally; while all are accompanied
447 | shall
448 1 | and whether all animals share in them both, or some partake
449 | she
450 3 | poured on them feel a sudden shiver of cold, just so in the
451 1 | examples are-health and sickness, beauty and ugliness, strength
452 2 | unable to exercise, in the simple sense any particular sensory
453 3 | downwards. Hence it is that men sink down [as they do in sleep]
454 3 | disproportionately large size of the upper parts compared
455 1 | that by which we know the sleeper to be asleep; for we assume
456 3 | and persons borne down [by sleepiness] and nodding [drowsily]
457 [Title]| On Sleep and Sleeplessness~
458 3 | afterwards phantasy.~Or are the solutions thus proposed barely conceivable
459 3 | for fatigue operates as a solvent, and the dissolved matter
460 1 | exclusively, and that a soulless body has not the potentiality
461 2 | genus of sensibles, e.g. sound or colour); and since this [
462 3 | large appetites, though spare and lean; for their bodily
463 2 | But of them we have to speak later on. Why it is that
464 1 | same animal, e.g. that some species of animal should be always
465 2 | which we have treated in our speculations concerning the Soul); it
466 3 | small quantity. For wine is spirituous, and of all wines the dark
467 1 | workings of Nature, or of Spontaneity.~First, then, this much
468 3 | therefore, this comes to a stand it weighs a person down
469 | still
470 3 | in the fact that, as the stomach when empty is hot, while
471 2 | calling it a "rest" [from the strain of movement implied in sense-perception]:
472 3 | a tide-race in a narrow strait. Now, in every animal the
473 2 | some affection, it would be strange that these senses, for which
474 2 | holding the breath produces strength-in creatures which inhale,
475 3 | during sleep, and their subsequent habitual seizures occur
476 2 | alternately puffed up and subsiding in the part which is in
477 2 | common sensory activity] subsists in association chiefly with
478 3 | water poured on them feel a sudden shiver of cold, just so
479 3 | evaporation. This, then, is a sufficient explanation of the cooling
480 3 | turned into vapour by the sun’s heat is, when it has ascended
481 3 | but when it has actually sunk downwards, and by its return
482 2 | become insensible. But sleep supervenes when such incapacity of
483 1 | manner; further, whether, supposing it possible, it extends
484 1 | which the cause lies in supra-human agency, and which result
485 3 | small compass from out the surrounding part, has once more prevailed,
486 1 | sleep, therefore, must be susceptible of awakening. Accordingly,
487 2 | faculty of discerning, that sweet things are different from
488 2 | in cases of swooning. A swoon means just such impotence
489 3 | conceivable that one who had swooned should in this state fall
490 3 | that an animal must first take food and receive growth,
491 2 | and beneficial; and since, taught by experience, men apply
492 3 | descends and cools the hot. The tenuity or narrowness of the veins
493 1 | are aquatic, aerial, or terrestrial, since fishes of all kinds,
494 1 | whether they sleep or not. Of testaceous animals, on the contrary,
495 3 | whose veins are large are, thanks to the easy flow through
496 3 | contained in the head, while the thickest and most turbid is that
497 3 | It is reasonable, too, to think that this affection is the
498 3 | the "evaporation" ascends thither? Or, as those who have hot
499 2 | of sense-perception or of thought is the highest end for all
500 2 | of origination is one of three determinate loci, viz. that