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Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1899 Volume LIV, No. 6, April 1899
APPLETONS'
POPULAR SCIENCE
MONTHLY
EDITED BY
WILLIAM JAY YOUMANS
VOL. LIV
NOVEMBER, 1898, TO APRIL, 1899
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1899
Copyright, 1899,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
Vol. LIV.Established by Edward L. Youmans.No. 6.
APPLETONS' POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
APRIL, 1899.
EDITED BY WILLIAM JAY YOUMANS.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| I. | The Stuff that Dreams are made of. By Havelock Ellis | 721 |
| II. | The Best Methods of Taxation. By the Late Hon. David A. Wells. Part I | 736 |
| III. | Mental Defectives and the Social Welfare. By Martin W. Barr, M. D. (Illustrated.) | 746 |
| IV. | The Wheat Problem again. By Edward Atkinson | 759 |
| V. | The Coming of the Catbird. By Spencer Trotter | 772 |
| VI. | Guessing, as Influenced by Number Preferences. By F. B. Dresslar | 781 |
| VII. | Concerning Weasels. By William E. Cram. (Illustrated.) | 786 |
| VIII. | Care of the Throat and Ear. By W. Scheppegrell, M. D. | 791 |
| IX. | The Physical Geography of the West Indies. I. The Mammals of the Antilles. By Dr. F. L. Oswald | 802 |
| X. | Iron in the Living Body. By M. A. Dastre | 807 |
| XI. | The Malay Language. By Prof. R. Clyde Ford | 813 |
| XII. | Life on a South Sea Whaler. By Frank T. Bullen | 818 |
| XIII. | Sketch of Manly Miles. (With Portrait.) | 834 |
| XIV. | Editor's Table: Science and Culture.—Survival of the Fittest | 842 |
| XV. | Scientific Literature | 845 |
| XVI. | Fragments of Science | 854 |
| XVII. | Index to Vol. LIV | 865 |
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MANLY MILES.APPLETONS' POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
FEBRUARY, 1899.
THE STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF.
By HAVELOCK ELLIS.
In our dreams we are taken back into an earlier world. It is a world much more like that of the savage, the child, the criminal, the madman, than is the world of our respectable civilized waking life. That is, in large part, it must be confessed, the charm of dreams. It is also the reason of their scientific value. Through our dreams we may realize our relation to stages of evolution we have long left behind, and by the self-vivisection of our sleeping life we may learn to know something regarding the mind of primitive man and the source of some of his beliefs, thus throwing light on the facts we obtain by ethnographic research.
This aspect of dreams has not always been kept steadily in sight, though it can