The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-11-04
The Vast Importance Of
Understanding Psychology

| Lhen' All otnef tllngS we nelIner
Iknoy, nor assume to know, nor do we
even believe them.
For illustration:
FIRST CLASS: We know that we
exist We know that other people ex-
ist. We know that other things besides
ourselves also exist. We know that
fire burns and that water quenches
thirst. We know that snow is soft and
white and that ice is hard and cold to
our senses. We know that flowers
bloom and that birds sing. We know
that as individual intelIigences we pos
sess certain faculties, capacities and
powers. We know that certain things
we call food, water and air are neces-
sary to sustain what we name the life
of our physical bodies. We know
when we are happy and we know what
sorrow is. We know that we can
think and that we can convey our thots
to others. We know that life has a
present existence and that what we
call death dissolves the physical man
Hesitation of this earthly life.
These are things we know and we
know that we know them. Why7 Be-
cause they fall within the radius Of our
OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES.
! By the aid of our own senses we have
personally demonstrated them. And
these are the only reasons that war
rant us in asserting that we know
Them. Except as personal experiences,
we could never know them. That which
is outside the range of our own person.
lal experience is not definitely and pos
lively known to US.
!, 1t is of the utmost Importance, there
fore, to the cause of truth. that every
man who speaks for the world to hear
should never allow himself to forget
that PERSONAL EXPERIENCE is the
t only absolute basis and infallible test
of what we know. Whatever fails tc
: reach the demands of this simple anc
: exact test does not rise to the dignity
e of actual and personal knowledge"
l. We assume to know great many
: other things that amt" so, and thes'
e assumptions of every description arr
n bones of contention that human being
l. quarrel and wrangIe over and tina
n cause them TO split up into mutual,
e nominating and antagonistic sect:
IS cliques and classes.
Says Warrington Dawson in the o.
n tober number of Health and Life"
n 1--WE fully see in nature only what on
lie eyes are physically or intuitively capa
= bic of seeing; we fully understand i
l. men and in things only what our mind
4 have prepared us to learn, or what GU
d hearts would prompt us to do. **
Humanity may be divided in man
lie contrasting categories. as the good an
III the bad, the weak and the strong, tn
n wise and the foolish. But the creates
N cleavage of all exists between thos
lie who are willing to understand an
W those who refuse
IS In this Colony we should seek a
D the points of agreement possible, fc
y pleasant associations and efficient use
lie full mutual service and productiv
Il work and full accordant adjustment
l. possible to the greatest extent onl
l. when this is the attitude of each ind
vidual colonist. Let us realize that fc
re us to be governed by preconceived nc
% tons and opinions, unsupported b
reason or by facts, will not change
sing lie erroneous assumption, theory c
10 belief into truth or alter single sui
IF stantiated fact in the least. 1t will or
re ly manifest our folly without in an
% degree adding to our knowledge {
Y. increasing our usefulness and happ
r ness.
I'LL Comrade Theo. F. Cuno broache
o. the subject Of biology and is intendin
IF to start class for the study Of til
st subject. The study can, be made
ct very profitable one. provided strict
a. scientific methods to present-day tan
Sc gibIe objects are applied. The writ,
is for one does not know by personal e1
he perience just how life originally star
a. ed and does not perceive how il coul
1e help in the solution Of modern prof.
n, lens in the least if he did We ma
ne not exactly know what life is, but "
II. can learn how to live sane. who'll
RS some life, and this is of utmost impo
OF lance.
mi Comrade Wurfer dwelled especial