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Updated: May 18, 2025
Old jokes are dynamometers of mental tension; an old joke tells better among friends travelling than at home, which shows that their minds are in a state of diminished, rather than increased vitality. There was a story about "strahps to your pahnts," which was vastly funny to us fellows on the road from Milan to Venice. Coelum, non animum, travellers change their guineas, but not their characters.
When the French savans, Péron, Regnier, Ransonnet, carried their dynamometers to the islands of the Indian Ocean, they found with surprise that an average English sailor was forty-two per cent, stronger, and an average Frenchman thirty per cent, stronger, than the strongest island tribe they visited.
Originally men's knowledge of weights and forces was in the same condition as their knowledge of smells and tastes is now a knowledge not extending beyond that given by the unaided sensations; and it remained so until weighing instruments and dynamometers were invented.
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