"When we are suddenly awaked by any violent stimulus, the surprise totally disunites the trains of our sleeping ideas from these of our waking ones; but if we gradually awake, this does not happen; and we readily unravel the preceding trains of imagination."
Zoonomia: or, The Laws of Organic Life [Vol. I]
<u>Zoonomia: or, The Laws of Organic Life</u>, vol. 1 (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1794). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004874881.0001.001">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt; 