Word: processes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...issue opens with an article by Mr. Ricker of the Department of "Psychology on "Psychology and the Chauffeur." The writer points out the inadequacy of contemporary tests of the fitness of drivers of motor-vehicles, and the importance of the elimination of the unfit by some scientific process instead of by accident. His suggestion for a more effective and less costly method of elimination is ingenious, but not convincing. The test for the "slow reactionist" which the author sets up, will not disclose the possession or absence, of the capacity for forming quick and accurate judgments, the capacity commonly called...
Intelligence may surely be retained as real even by those who are unwilling to admit anything not rationally connected with the objects of positive science. Now, if science does not mean a mere illusory process, the creative operation of intelligence, as distinguished from the scientific reduction of reality to inert terms, may be considered as absolutely pertinent to the nature of reality, and as well entitled to command all our efforts in its carrying...
Positive science assumes things which are real in a definite order, and continually developing with variety and novelty; but could not experience, concrete consciousness, account for those characteristics which science finds in its objects, but whose explanation seems to contradict the scientific process itself? The basis of consciousness, however, is feeling. If we now consider feeling in its whole significance, we find that it necessarily involves reality. Feeling cannot be separated from faith in the real existence of things, therefore feeling supplies the existence of realities which science postulates. Something must exist, as there are beings endowed with feeling...
...experts consulted in regard to the Yard elms recommended that they be extensively pollarded, and that wherever the holes of the borers could be found they be filled with carbon bisulphide and sealed. This latter process was put into practice immediately, but only the dead or badly bored limbs were cut off. As the small limbs can not be reached it is impossible to exterminate the worms in them...