What I have written, I have written as much for myself as for you: if it were not so, it would be useless both to you and to me. We must go up each for himself and take the strongholds of our own Ignorance and Distrust and Fear. Let no one think that he can get life by merely reading these words of life.
Try these things for yourself—teach these things to your other selves; breathe them in and live them out. Open your mind and enlarge your heart so that the Spirit may be able to bless you and keep you with him, and to be kind to you, and to lift up the Light of his countenance upon you and give you
APPENDICES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Some matters of interest mainly to students of sleep phenomena have been mentioned in the text and put in these appendices. In this way the general reader is saved the trouble of skipping in the body of the text.
Appendix “A” contains some medical information on the subject of Insomnia and sleep-inducing drugs.
Appendix “B” and “C” have been translated from the Latin by A. T. Craig especially for use in “The Gift of Sleep.” They are of value chiefly as showing the attitude of the ancients towards this natural function.
Appendix “D” gives some provisional conclusions based on a Questionnaire on Sleep. The returns are as yet incomplete.