Today, very few people work on farms. We work in offices and make sales calls and teach classes, and we are involved in a host of other very stressful occupations and we've come to know the value of taking time away. Chuck Swindoll tells about a research psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health who was concerned about the stresses of modern life. He was convinced he could prove his theory from a cage full of mice. Dr. John Calhoun.
Overcrowded conditions take a terrible toll on humanity.
Dr. Calhoun built a nine-foot square cage for his mice. He observed them closely as their population grew. He started with eight mice. The cage was designed to contain comfortably a population of 160. He allowed the mice to grow, however to a population of 2200.