Fatigue (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Fatigue

Professor Mosso needs no introduction to the English speaking public, his work on Fear being already well known through a translation by E. Lough, and F. Kiesow, published in 1896. His study of Fatigue, which is now for the first time translated, deals with a subject of even more general interest and of special importance to educationists.

Although from the nature of things one of the oldest of the arts, only of recent years has education attained the status of a science, and even yet many of its maxims are frankly empirical. Based upon psychology and physiology it suffers from all their errors and defects and prospers with their prosperity; hence the application of modern methods of scientific research to the problems of psychology and physiology may be expected to result in important additions to the theory of education. All natural sciences have gone through a period of youth in which their sphere was not clearly defined, their terms were vague and their results uncertain; all of them may be said to have attained their majority when experiment came to the aid of observation, and more particularly when the phenomena considered were compelled to submit themselves to measurement.

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