Word: miasma
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Brought the science of physchology in America almost singlehanded out of the miasma of metaphysics into the clear white light of experimental rationalism. Pupil of Wilhelm Wundt, he caught the physiological genius of that great founder, and built his theory strictly on the neurological basis of the human body. Hall's wide-ranging, liberal and incisive intelligence took him into many special fields. It made him the dean of the genetic psychologists, with a sympathetic and encyclopedic knowledge of infancy and adolescence (the subject of his greatest work). It distinguished him in the comparative psychology of animals...
...With the miasma of fear and hatred arising from the passions of war still tending to obscure the fundamental issues of reconstruction the appropriation of ten million dollars by the House of Representative for the relief of starving women and children in Germany comes as a decided surprise. It is at once an evidence if a renewed sanity in political outlook and an indication of the seriousness of the food problem in Germany. As an expression of a forgiving spirit and a desire to alleviate unnecessary; suffering the bill should call forth only favorable comment, which even the suspicion that...