Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is the next thing, then, that we want, in order to make sure of durable satisfactions in life? We need a strong mental grip, a wholesome capacity for hard work. It is intellectual power and aims that we need. In all the professions--learned, scientific, or industrial--large mental enjoyments should come to educated men. The great distinction between the privileged class to which you belong--the class that has opportunity for prolonged education--and the much larger class which has not that opportunity, is that the educated class lives mainly by the exercise of intellectual powers, and gets...
...place of learning. Well, you cannot help breathing, and you cannot help growing, these processes will take care of themselves. The question for you from day to day is how to learn to work to advantage, and college is the place and now is the time to win mental power. And, lastly, live today and every day like a man of honor
...sleep off. Instead of going to bed for the night, one would have a shot in the arm or a pink pill, change his shirt and bid every one "Good Night" with a cheery morning smile. Other chemicals-not to call them drugs-might be evolved for stimulating mental activity without robbing Peter to pay Paul, as do Cocaine, alcohol, etc. Thus, out of the test tube, a synthetic superman, "a short cut to the millennium...
Many a night James Calisch sat until dawn with young Emanuel Silberstein, who would come around from 57th St. to interrogate and dispute upon the writings of Spinoza, the Jew of Amsterdam; of morbid Schopenhauer, neurotic Nietzsche, recondite Kant. Emanuel was regarded by himself and his family, as a mental prodigy. He had made public orations in the Liberty Loan drives at the age of 10. He had finished high school at 16 and, after a nervous breakdown, read long and late at philosophy and psychology, screwed up in a corner with his scrawny shoulders hunched, his lean hooked nose...
...judge asked: "Do you think it was funny to murder a man?" "To tell the truth, Judge," said the boy, seriously, "I have lost my mental capacity to explain. . . . I don't want you to think, Judge, that I thought it was funny to kill this man. I thought it was funny for you to ask that question...