Excerpt from Self-Control and How to Secure It: L'éducation De Soi-MêmeWhen one considers the life of the mind, it becomes no longer possible to divide human ity into two classes, the sick and the well. Neurasthenia, of which one hears so much nowadays, is not a disease that attacks us like rheumatism or tuberculosis, it is the psychic form of human weakness that we owe to our natural and hereditary defects, to our badly directed education, to the vicious in¿uences which act upon us during our entire physical and mental development. It is not a weak ness of nerves such as the word neuras thenia implies, it is, above all, mental de bility, and psychasthenia is the word to express it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.