Nerves / by David Fraser-Harris.

David Fraser Fraser-Harris

Date:: [1928]

Credit: Nerves / by David Fraser-Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$crowbar, has not learned, eumetria, and if be never could learn it, he never could become a skilled workman. The skilled workman thinks that he should be rewarded by good wages for his skill in having learned eumetria ; the unskilled labourer who cannot learn it need not expect to get the same wages as a skilled man. His nervous system is not worth so much ; perhaps he cannot learn the necessary fineness of muscular adjustments, eumetria and co-ordination, cannot perhaps by reason of inherited disability, and society at present does not pay him so much as it does his more fortunate brother. All men are not equal, either at birth or by training: all nervous systems are not equal \ and he who asserts that they are utters a neurological inexactitude. But it is very clear that all this precision, co-ordination, and expenditure of the correct degree of muscular energy is only possible in pioportion as the muscular and other senses are properly trained. Unless the man has acquiied a fine perception of resistance—- the chief kind of information yielded by the muscular sense—he cannot duly grade the intensity of the output of his muscular efforts. The engraver must learn exactly how much$

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