Word: human
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When animals were first studied by the psychologists, their behavior was interpreted anthropomorphically. The knowledge of human psychology was thrown into reverse and the animals were credited with consciousness, introspective, free will, after the German school led by Wilhelm Max Wundt. First to throw brilliant new light on the problem was Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Son of a priest in a Russian village, he was early confronted with Spirit & Mind v. Matter. Long years in scientific study got him a doctor's degree at the age of 34. Six years later, 1890, he was appointed director of the physiology department...
Three years ago Pavlov came to America. Confused by rush and roar he sat for a moment on a seat in Grand Central Station, Manhattan. A small handbag containing much of his money lay on the seat beside him and with characteristic absorption in the seething human laboratory around him, he forgot his worldly goods completely. When he rose to go, the handbag was gone. It had been taken from under his very nose. "Ah, well," sighed Pavlov gently, "one must not put temptation in the way of the needy...
Pavlov's researches have revolutionized the study of human psychology. Man is now regarded as a higher member of the animal kingdom psychologically as well as physiologically. On account of the greater complexity of the human brain, more types of reaction are possible but the underlying mechanics are the same. The recent work on shell shock has demonstrated what harm can arise from badly conditioned reflexes...
...contagious, but tendencies for or against it can be inherited in mice. Twenty-five generations has she bred absolutely free of cancer because the original stock had been eugenically chosen. Cancerous ancestors infallibly transmitted the disease down the generations infallibly. Said Dr. Slye: "If we could manage human breeding as expertly as we can manage mouse breeding, it might be possible to develop a race, or at least a segment of a race, that we knew was absolutely immune to cancer...
...Significance. The number of books with terse culinary titles grows fast. BREAD-OIL-STEEL-have worried bones of social contention. Now MEAT. But if Author Steele started with a social passion he soon abandoned it to fondle various phases of human distortion with apparent fascination. Readers who have long counted on his stories for sound enjoyment, will be astonished to encounter here a collection of picayune obscenities importantly treated, and a legitimate argument abused and invalidated...