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Weary of Work | Lapham's Quarterly

Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Industry at Night, by Horatio C. Forjohn, c. 1940. Smithsonian American Art Museum, transfer from the General Services Administration.
Most discussions of fatigue at the turn of the twentieth century begin with neurasthenia (from a Greek term meaning nervous exhaustion), the diagnosis popularized by neurologist George M. Beard in 1869. Like other physicians at the time, Beard viewed the body as a machine powered by energy produced by the nerves. The depletion of that energy resulted in the condition he called neurasthenia. Although sufferers reported an array of vague symptoms, including irritability, weight loss, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and impotence, fatigue was the most important and rest a commonly prescribed remedy. We tend to assume we live in a time of unprecedented and overwhelming social and technological change. In the late nineteenth century, similar anxieties were provoked by the advent of telephones, telegraphs, trains, and wha ....

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Prince Philip was a restless pragmatist with an extraordinary range of interests

Prince Philip was a restless pragmatist with an extraordinary range of interests
From helping young people become valuable members of society, to being a champion for nature, the Duke was committed to improving the world
The Duke was a man of striking contrasts
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Prince Philip was a man ahead of his time. From the early 1950s, he addressed issues that are now at the forefront of international politics, but which back then were often dismissed as off-beat and even irrelevant.
This could be frustrating. In the case of the environment, he could see what needed to be done and felt he had to bang his message into people whose heads were firmly in the sand. In 1968, more than 50 years ago, he wrote that in man’s long history he had struggled to survive in a hostile environment, but that now “the earth and the whole natural environment in which we live is on the defensive against mankind’s ruthless exploitation”. Man was exploiting his environment “ ....

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