Must We Sleep?

Nikola Tesla, dean of American inventors, recently told reporters that he scarcely sleeps an hour a day, and that he considers sleep a matter of habit. According to him, people have developed the habit of sleeping because of having to spend a part of each day in the dark. if it is really a habit, we do not hesitate to say it is a bad habit. We lose nearly half of our life in that way. For people who stay up late, perhaps the figure is only a quarter of their life, but it is still too much. In any case, now we know it Is not a necessity of life, there is no further excuse for sleeping through a sermon or nodding over a book, and public officials can at least be expected to stay awake at their jobs! — La Patrie (Montreal).