ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author suggests that the more moral part of one's nature slept more profoundly than more primitive ones. In this he anticipated an interesting part of Freud's celebrated theory of dreams, and paved the way for a readier acceptance of it when he subsequently encountered it than might otherwise have happened. He used to admire the minority of workmen whose packet included a golden sovereign, and felt sure they were very superior people, which they probably were. But the general run was seventeen to eighteen shillings. After his recovery his mother insisted that he be sent to the Swansea Grammar School, a seventeenth-century foundation of good standing. Whether she believed that—because of some embedded association between poverty, stimulated his parents to greater efforts of sacrifice; but he remember that the promise of the new school was held out to tempt to more rapid convalescence.
