Author : Pierre Lecomte Du Nouy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282586003
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)
Book Synopsis Biological Time (Classic Reprint) by : Pierre Lecomte Du Nouy
Download or read book Biological Time (Classic Reprint) written by Pierre Lecomte Du Nouy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Biological Time The knowledge of physiological time is of obvious im portance because it leads to the understanding of its value. Long ago, Minot found that the younger an animal is, the more rapid is the rate of aging. From his experiments, it could be inferred that physiological time has a much greater velocity in youth than in old age. But we remained ignorant of the extent of those differences. Their numerical value has been determined by Lecomte du Nouy. The rate of tissue repair is five times slower at the age of sixty than at the age of ten. The significance of the time of a clock depends naturally on the characteristics of physiological time. When compared with physiological time, physical time loses its uniform value. Parents and children live in different temporal worlds. They are separated by a gap that often is too large to be bridged, even by illusions. Within the familial group, the individuals should not be separated by too great a temporal distance. It is, therefore, desirable for women to have chil dren as early in life as possible. Again, the knowledge of the characteristics of physiological time teaches us that, at the end of life, aging is very slow. From one year to another, the appearance of an old man in good health hardly changes. Any acceleration in the process of aging in a senescent in dividual signifies the incidence of a disease, which should be detected. It also becomes obvious that the value of a day is much greater for a child than for his parents and his teachers. The younger a child is, the richer his life in physio logical and psychical values. Such a fact should not be neglected by educators. Every moment of the existence of a child must be utilized for his formation. A clear realization of the enormous value of physical time for children would bring about a real progress in education and in the quality of individuals. The knowledge of physiological time is equivalent to the knowledge of life itself, because time can not be separated from life. The deeper this knowledge, the more successful will be our approach to the mystery of our self. For these reasons, I am happy to present this book by Lecomte du Nouy to the American public. 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.
