The Higher Powers of Man (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Higher Powers of Man 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 afilatus or in spiration, 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 con ceive it, with Felta, as an adrenaline state, al though, as Cannon has shown, the sudden ¿ushing 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.