. Who is insane? . of the brain-cells devoted to hisbusiness during his Mid-Life period, and hence WHO IS INSANE? 123 there is no lapse in their functions, no derange-ment, no unsoundness, no insanity. It iswhen conditions interrupt their functioning orarouse other nerve-centers to an activity whichdominates all others, that the normal course ofthought and action indicates mental can the business man prevent insanity?Certainly not by retiring from business, but byso regulating its details as to cause the leastworry or anxiety. The business man who haseight hours of uninterrupted
. Who is insane? . of the brain-cells devoted to hisbusiness during his Mid-Life period, and hence WHO IS INSANE? 123 there is no lapse in their functions, no derange-ment, no unsoundness, no insanity. It iswhen conditions interrupt their functioning orarouse other nerve-centers to an activity whichdominates all others, that the normal course ofthought and action indicates mental can the business man prevent insanity?Certainly not by retiring from business, but byso regulating its details as to cause the leastworry or anxiety. The business man who haseight hours of uninterrupted dreamless sleep inthe twenty-four hours will maintain and sustain—other things being equal—a sound mind ina sound body. While, therefore, there are perilsin the liabilities to great disasters in business ofevery kind, there is compensation in the powerof resistance which the nerve elements acquireby constant stimulation to activity through con-fact with opposing and contending forces. IX Climacter IX Climacter. LIMACTER is a technical wordwhich means a dangerous orcritical period of life, a periodin which some great change issupposed to take place in thehuman constitution. The olderwriters attached much impor-tance to these periods, but without having anyrational basis for their opinions other than im-perfect observations. They re-The Time duced these periods to a system ofof Crisis seven years each. They regardedthe years ending the third, fifth,seventh, and ninth periods as climacteric—dan-gerous, critical—because a great change takesplace in the constitution. The year ending theninth period of seven years—the sixty-third year—was called the grand climacteric. Thoughthere is a physiological basis for some of theseperiods, the changes in the constitution whichthey are supposed to indicate occur so variablyas regards individuals that they have only a gen-eral significance. 127 128 WHO IS INSANE? The true import of the grand climacter, inevery person who reaches tha
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