Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FROM WITHIN?J. Ingram Bryan-Stokes ($4.50). In a cold, factual, scholastic way, Dr. Bryan has given an admirable summary of the present conditions of Japan; and, by including historical background, he has clearly presented the remarkable progress made by that country. In a word, he makes the reader understand Japan but not the Japanese...
...Comprehending the individual personality seems to rest on intuition, a process which psychologists do not entirely understand. Common sense in character judgments of the intuitive sort, correctly attributed to women, rest upon just such an apprehension of the total personality. Analysis of personality will help us to understand people, but it will never supplant this intuitive appreciation of the personality of our associates...
Research of individual personality, brain tests, and mental analyses are products of the last few years. People are gradually beginning to realize that it is possible to look inside a man and understand his actions from the previous experiences and habits of his mind. Criminal punishment and the problem of the insane have only slightly benefitted from these new methods. A great deal can be done in the future along all lines of personal welfare. Dr. Allport's efforts deserve the most serious consideration...
...Bryan does not seem to be inp09sscession of the facts as far as I can sec. I cannot understand how a man's belief in evolution can interfere with his being a Christian if he wants to believe in Christianity. It seems to me that whether a man prefers to believe that his original ancestor was made out of mud or whether he thinks in the other hand that his ancestor was an ape he ought in either case of appre- ciate the social value of the teaching of Christ. I am not in the least discomposed by Mr. Bryan...
...message from G. B. Shaw said: "As the amoeba does not understand birth control, it cannot abuse it and therefore its state may be the more gracious ; but it is also true that, as the amoeba cannot write, it cannot commit forgery; yet we teach everybody to write unhesitatingly, knowing that if we refuse to teach anything that could be abused, we should never teach anything...