The Higher Powers of Man (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "On Health, Fatigue, and Kepose," by William Stirling, M. D., Uritish Medical Journal, December 6, 1913. "Physiology," by Starling. "Personal Hygiene," by Pyle. "Some Considerations Regarding the Factor of Fatigue with Reference to Industrial Conditions," by W. A. White, M. D., in American Journal of Medical Science, CXIV (1913), p. 219. "Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage," by W. B. Cannon, M. D. "The Conditions of Fatigue in the Nervous System." chapter{Section 4INTRODUCTION The phenomena of "second breath" are known to every schoolboy, and have played a great role in primitive human life. When a boy has run until he is out of breath and ready to drop with fatigue, he often experiences a reinforcement of energy and a new type of breathing and then can run on indefinitely. So in studying late at night, if we force our way through the ripraps of exhaustion and sleepiness, we often experience a new wakefulness, like a kind of afflatus or inspiration, and we can write better and study more easily. It is not enough to describe this state by saying that the fatigue sense is fatigued and drops out of function; nor is it enough to conceive it, with Felta, as an adrenaline state, although, as Cannon has shown, the sudden flushing of the blood with adrenaline is the physiological basis of the reinforcement of energy that fear and anger so often give. Psychologically, there is much to be said in favor of the views which conceive of it as if the individual in such states were able to tap the resources of the race that slumber in him. There are always two aspects of human nature.One is the individual and conscious, and the other, the phyletic or racial, which is more unconscious and generic. It is this that constitutes the deeper nature of man and in such ...