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  | author = Stock, George, St.,B.A.(Oxon)

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  | title = A Budget of Ancient Dreams

  | title = A Budget of Ancient Dreams

Such instances as this and the foregoing might, not without reason, be ascribed to a fanciful credulity. But the following dream, if true, places beyond a doubt the power of the human spirit in sleep to transcend its ordinary faculties of perception. “Yes, if true,” the skeptic will scornfully exclaim; and we are bound to confess that we have it only as one among many anecdotes recorded by our author, Valerius Maximus, and by Cicero, in his “Treatise on Divination.” But at the present day many instances, no less distinct and remarkable of apprehension of distant and anticipation of future events by means of dreaming, are recorded on evidence which it is impossible to dispute. The probability, therefore, lies in favor of the truth of a story which is paralleled by undoubted facts, even if the evidence on which it rests is not such as to satisfy a critical investigator. But let us get to our dream, with which I shall conclude this paper.

Such instances as this and the foregoing might, not without reason, be ascribed to a fanciful credulity. But the following dream, if true, places beyond a doubt the power of the human spirit in sleep to transcend its ordinary faculties of perception. “Yes, if true,” the skeptic will scornfully exclaim; and we are bound to confess that we have it only as one among many anecdotes recorded by our author, Valerius Maximus, and by Cicero, in his “Treatise on Divination.” But at the present day many instances, no less distinct and remarkable of apprehension of distant and anticipation of future events by means of dreaming, are recorded on evidence which it is impossible to dispute. The probability, therefore, lies in favor of the truth of a story which is paralleled by undoubted facts, even if the evidence on which it rests is not such as to satisfy a critical investigator. But let us get to our dream, with which I shall conclude this paper.

Two bosom friends, Arcadians, who were traveling together came to Megara, where one put up for the night at the house of an acquaintance, while the other betook himself to an inn. While the former lay asleep, his comrade appeared to him begging his assistance against the designs of the landlord, and saying that, by coming quickly, he might save him from imminent peril. The dreamer started from his sleep, and with the instinct of friendship, got on the way to the inn, when the absurdity of the situation proved too much for him, an! he went back to bed. Scarcely, however, had sleep {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |3-194}}

Two bosom friends, Arcadians, who were traveling together came to Megara, where one put up for the night at the house of an acquaintance, while the other betook himself to an inn. While the former lay asleep, his comrade appeared to him begging his assistance against the designs of the landlord, and saying that, by coming quickly, he might save him from imminent peril. The dreamer started from his sleep, and with the instinct of friendship, got on the way to the inn, when the absurdity of the situation proved too much for him, an! he went back to bed. Scarcely, however, had sleep {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |3-195}}