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'True,' he said; 'very true.' But when a man's pulse beats

temperately; and he has supped on a feast of reason and come to a

knowledge of himself before going to rest, and has satisfied his

desires just enough to prevent their perturbing his reason, which

remains clear and luminous, and when he is free from quarrel and

heat,-the visions which he has on his bed are least irregular and

abnormal. Even in good men there is such an irregular wild-beast

nature, which peers out in sleep.