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Excerpt from The Philosophy of Sleep
Night is the time for sleep; and assuredly the hush of darkness as naturally courts to repose as meridian splendour ?ashes on us the necessity of our being up at our labour. In fact, there exists a strange, but certain sympathy between the periods Of day and night, and the performance of particular functions during these periods. That this is not the mere effect Of custom, might be readily demon strated. All nature awakes with the rising sun. The birds begin to sing; the bees to ?y about with murmurous delight. The ?owers which shut under the embrace Of darkness, unfold themselves to the light. The cattle arise to crop the dewy herbage; and man goeth forth to his labour until the evening. At close Of day, the reverse of all this activity and motion is Observed. The songs of the woodland choir, one after another, become hushed, till at length twilight is left to silence, with her own star and her falling dews. Action is succeeded by listlessness, energy by languor, the desire of exertion by the inclination for repose. Sleep.
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