work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7547,"",Reading,2013-07-16 19:14:06 UTC,"If the circulation goes on with too great rapidity; the soul cannot sleep. If the soul be thrown into too great an agitation, the blood loses its calm, and rushes thro' the veins with a noise that sometimes may be distinctly heard: such are the two reciprocal causes of insomny. A frightful dream makes the heart beat double, and tears us form the sweet necessity of rest, as effectually as a lively pain, or pressing want. In a word, as the sole cessation of the functions of the soul produces sleep, man is subject even during some waking moments (when in reality th soul is no more than half awake) to certain sorts of revery or slumbers of the soul, which are very frequent, and sufficiently prove that the soul does not wait for the body to fall asleep. For if it does not entirely sleep, how little does it want of it? Since it is impossible for her to recollect one object, to which she gave attention, amidst that innumerable crowd of confused ideas, which as so many vanishing clouds had filled up, if I may so say, the atmosphere of the brain.
(pp. 9-10) ",,21801,"","""For if it does not entirely sleep, how little does it want of it? Since it is impossible for her to recollect one object, to which she gave attention, amidst that innumerable crowd of confused ideas, which as so many vanishing clouds had filled up, if I may so say, the atmosphere of the brain.""","",2013-07-16 19:14:06 UTC,""
7547,"",Reading,2013-07-16 20:20:17 UTC,"..] since certain traces of the brain likewise excite the same itching, and create the same inclinations; why should we make a difference, or endeavour to make two things of what is apparently but one? It is ridiculous to exclaim against the dominion of the will. For one order which it gives, a hundred times does it come under the yoke. And where is the wonder that the body when in health should be subservient, for how can it resist that torrent of blood, and all those spirits which are ready to force obedience, the will having for its ministers an invisible army of fluids, always ready to receive its orders, and as quick as lightening in the execution of them! But as it is by the nerves that the power of the will is exercis'd, so it it likewise by them that it is oftentimes check'd. Can the highest efforts of the will alone, bring aid to the exhausted new married lover, of the greatest warmth of desire bring back his fallen vigour? [...]
(p. 64)",,21835,"","""And where is the wonder that the body when in health should be subservient, for how can it resist that torrent of blood, and all those spirits which are ready to force obedience, the will having for its ministers an invisible army of fluids, always ready to receive its orders, and as quick as lightening in the execution of them!""",Inhabitants,2013-07-16 20:20:17 UTC,""