잠 수면과 꿈의 생리와 심리에 대한 전공 논문專攻論文. The Book of A monograph on sleep and dream: the

잠 수면과 꿈의 생리와 심리에 대한 전공 논문專攻論文. The Book of A monograph on sleep and dream: their physiology and psychology, by Edward William Cox
PREFACE.
Some papers on the Phenomena of Sleep and Dream, read before The
Psychological Society of Great Britain, having excited much interest and caused
considerable discussion, I was requested to put them into the more formal shape
of a treatise. For this purpose I found it necessary to recast and rewrite the whole.
The modern endeavour to pursue Psychology, as all the physical sciences are
now pursued, by the study of facts and phenomena, instead of by metaphysical
abstractions, consulting of inner consciousness and argument ？ priori, has
invested the subject of this monograph with extraordinary importance, because
Sleep and Dream are familiar physical and psychical conditions, disputed by none
and which cannot be ascribed to prepossession,[ iv] dominant ideas, or diluted
insanity. Therefore a profound, fearless, and searching investigation of their
characteristics, causes, and operations could not fail to throw a flood of light
upon many of the seeming mysteries of mental philosophy and psychology,
promising a solution of some most difficult problems of life and mind, and
revealing to us―as do the phenomena of dream―much of the structure and
action of the Mechanism of Man.
The marvel is that such obvious means of access to hidden springs of that
mechanism should have been so long neglected by Physiologists and
Psychologists.
In dealing with a subject so old and yet so new, I can do little more than suggest
explanations of phenomena. I do not venture to assert them. Those suggestions
are submitted to the reader to induce him to think and as subjects for further
examination and discussion rather than as dogmatic assumptions of ascertained
truths. The facts and phenomena reported are vouched for so far as my own
means of ascertaining their truth[ v] enable me; but causes and conclusions can
of necessity be little more than conjecture until a much larger collection of the
facts be made. To the gathering of such facts I hope this little book may stimulate
many observers. I shall deem the communication of them a valuable contribution
to science, and a favour to myself.
EDWARD W. COX.
CARLTON CLUB, 1st January, 1878.