Sleep is a perfect suspension of the activities of sentient life. Aristotle called it a binding up of the common sense. In man's earthly life intellect is extrinsically dependent upon sentiency and the binding up of sentient conscious- ness involves the suspension of normal rational conscious- ness; it is that »awareness« which renders serviceable all activities of the interior and exterior senses, and these activities are a constant drain upon its resources. Therefore it is to be expected that a period, more or less protracted, should be allotted by nature to the restoration in this much-worked faculty.
“Psychology” by J. Glenn, Herder Book Co., 1936
the hysteria issue
The mutant issue
Mutants — also known as »homo superior« — are an offshoot sub-species of humanity who are born with genetic abnormalities that grant them abilities beyond the normal variation expressed in the human genome. All Mutants possess the so-called »X-Gene« which expresses itself around puberty and causes the individual mutant’s powers to emerge. Mutants have been been the victims of considerable persecution throughout their history on earth. While records of Mutants on Earth appear as early as 5,000 years ago, the Mutant population did not grow to significant numbers until the early 20th century. Mutant births, however, began to increase throughout the 20th century (presumably due to environmental factors related to industrializa- tion). Mutant births steeped upwards after the end of the war, following the atomic blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. –
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