Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919. Excerpt: ... LESSON FOUR SIZE AND STRUCTURE PART ONE SIZE "Large bodies move slowly," says the proverb. While this is not a rule without exception, it expresses a general tendency in the world of sense about us. Large Size, Slow Motion.--Certain it is that, whatever the ultimate rate of speed, large bodies get under way slowly and when started have a greater momentum and are therefore more difficult to stop than small bodies. Long levers, booms, and sweeps tend to move in long, slow curves more or less rhythmically. Short levers and spurs tend to move in short, sharp curves or short, straight lines, quickly and jerkily. Among animate beings, large men and large animals, as a general rule, have comparatively slow heart and lung action, while small men and small animals have rapid heart and lung action. The heart and lung action in children and young animals is more rapid than that of adults. Intimate Relation Between Mind and Body.--So intimate is the relation between bodily states and bodily activities and mental states and mental activities that psychologists are unable to separate them. Dr. Luther H. Gulick, in his book, " The Efficient Life," page 23, says: "Psychologists are learning nowadays that it is impossible to treat the mind and the body as if they were really distinct. They have discovered that the two are so closely bound together that nothing can affect one without affecting the other in a greater or less degree. "Our feelings, our emotional experiences, were formerly treated as ' mental phenomena.' We still keep the phrase ' states of mind.' But we might just as accurately say ' states of body.' "A man gets angry. His breath comes short, his heart beats violently, the blood rushes to his face, his hands clench, his limbs may even quiver and grow tense. ...
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