생각과 말하기의 기원. The Book of The Origin of Thought and Speech,by M. Moncalm
INTRODUCTION
When opening my eyes in the morning, and whilst still struggling with an
inclination to sleep, I review the day and what it will have in store for me;
but the pictures drawn are confused, and my will takes no part in it.
For some time I have been haunted by the impression that the mental
faculties of the generality of men have not succeeded in throwing off a
species of torpor resembling that of a person hardly awake; the
supposition that this torpid condition prevents our minds from attaining
that degree of lucidity to which they have a right to aspire, is perhaps a
hallucination, yet possibly I may be right in thinking it.
How many confused ideas traverse my brain in one day, and how seldom
those come of which I follow the thread. We know well that injunction so
often given by parents to children, and by schoolmasters to their pupils:
“Try to concentrate your attention.” It almost seems as if that which we
require of children is beyond my powers, for I have hardly resolved to
disentangle a problem of whatever kind, when, under the form of useless,
futile, inept thoughts, obstacles heap themselves across my path. I
conclude from this that a fatal somnolence paralyses my faculties.