THE DURATION OF SLEEP.
Let us briefly allude to the duration of sleep—how in some cases a few hours will suffice, and in others a longer period is needed. Dr. Eeid, the metaphysician, could work for two days ■without a break if he got one sound sleep after a full meal. If the stories about Lord Brougham could be believed he could work on less sleep than mo3t people require. Frederick the Great and John Hunter required only five hours' sleep ; but it must not be supposed that because men with exceptionally powerfully nei'vou; organisations can dispense with the normal quantity of sleep, it would be safe for everyone to follow their example. The sleep of the heart, which we have seen to amount to eight hours out of the twenty-four, is a fair indication of the quantity of sleep which, on the average, ought to be allowed to the brain. As Sir Thomas Browne, the learned knight of Norwich, hath it : "Half our days we pass in the shadow of the eaitb, and the brother of death extracteth a third part of our lives. 1 ' Science for All.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2518, 16 July 1884, Page 3
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