- EAN13
- 9782366595727
- Éditeur
- Literature and Knowledge Publishing
- Date de publication
- 02/04/2018
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
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Indigestion as a Cause of Nervous Depression
Thomas Lauder Brunton
Literature and Knowledge Publishing
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Aide EAN13 : 9782366595727
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To most men who are engaged in intellectual work, an autumn holiday has become
a matter of necessity, and is not to be regarded as a mere luxury. During
eleven months of the year many who are engaged in brain-work systematically
overtax themselves, trusting to the month's holiday to bring them again into
proper working order. Formerly this was not the case. Men seemed to be able to
go on, not only month after month, but year after year, without any vacation
at all. The circumstances under which they lived were different from those
which exist now. The very means which facilitate our holidays—the network of
railways which puts us into complete and easy communication with any part of
the Continent of Europe, or the quick ocean-steamers which enable us to enjoy
half of a six weeks' holiday on the other side of the Atlantic, as well as the
telegraphic communications which will warn us in a moment, even at the most
distant point of our travels, of any urgent necessity for an immediate
return—all these are the very means which increase our labor during the
greater part of the year. We live at high pressure; letters and telegrams keep
us constantly on the qui vive; express trains hurry us miles away from home in
the morning and back again in the evening, and the pressure of competition is
so great that few men can afford either to take their work easily or to modify
the constant strain of it by breaks of a day or two at a time...
a matter of necessity, and is not to be regarded as a mere luxury. During
eleven months of the year many who are engaged in brain-work systematically
overtax themselves, trusting to the month's holiday to bring them again into
proper working order. Formerly this was not the case. Men seemed to be able to
go on, not only month after month, but year after year, without any vacation
at all. The circumstances under which they lived were different from those
which exist now. The very means which facilitate our holidays—the network of
railways which puts us into complete and easy communication with any part of
the Continent of Europe, or the quick ocean-steamers which enable us to enjoy
half of a six weeks' holiday on the other side of the Atlantic, as well as the
telegraphic communications which will warn us in a moment, even at the most
distant point of our travels, of any urgent necessity for an immediate
return—all these are the very means which increase our labor during the
greater part of the year. We live at high pressure; letters and telegrams keep
us constantly on the qui vive; express trains hurry us miles away from home in
the morning and back again in the evening, and the pressure of competition is
so great that few men can afford either to take their work easily or to modify
the constant strain of it by breaks of a day or two at a time...
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