Synopsis
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. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...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. If you could subtract all these symptoms from a fit of anger, it is hard to say how much of the fit would still remain. They are essential parts of that ' state of mind.'" Prof. William James, of Harvard, says: 1 "The general causes of the emotions are indubitably physiological." Mantegazza says:2 "Normally, every thought and emotion takes form in action." Large Men Less Easily Excitable than Small Men.--Since emotion must always express itself in motion, and since bodily states and mental states are so intimately connected as to cause and effect, it may be that the large man's size and consequent deliberation of movement is the reason...
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