(which was really youthfulness, notwithstanding that it disguised itself so boldly, in hoary and senile conceptions), than to take it seriously, or even treat it with moral indignation. Enough, however — the world grew older, and the dream vanished.

A time came when people rubbed their foreheads, and they still rub them today. People had been dreaming, and first and foremost — old Kant. “By means of a means (faculty)” — he had said, or at least meant to say. But, is that — an answer? An explanation? Or is it not rather merely a repetition of the question? How does opium induce sleep? “By means of a means (faculty),” namely the virtus dormitiva, replies the doctor in Moliere,

Quia est in eo virtus dormitiva,