The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02

e lGi1SAous S0lNASt4OAS are the pIlRdt6
: affairs Of the individual, and age-long
E experience has proven indisputably
t that even an error in this matter is new
! er surrendered and truer conception
j adopted as result Of ridicule, insult
and abuse heaped upon believers Of
! what to us may seem erroneous.
At the psychology meeting on Thurs
day night, November %, the following
excerpt was read from an article by
Edmund Henry Keenan,. entitled The
{ Psychological Problem Of the World"
and published in the Chicago Unity. :
Our whole modern idea Of educa-
ton is based upon the recognition Of
an Infinite capacity in the human mind
for mental progress and intellectual de-
i velopment, and yet the singular thing is
that almost every system Of practical
education among us is primarily direc-
ted to those immediate ends Of material
advance in which mans abilities are
already most completely demonstra-
ted, to the almost total exclusion Of
those departments Of social activity.
relationship, and mutual interest in the
life Of the world in which our human
attainments are so sadly deficient and
{ inadequate. So saturated is our life
with the spirit of our prevailing ma
terial commercialism that for a thous-
and schools for craftsmanship we do
not have so much as single school for
: craftsmanship. While when it comes
to definite moral training in the arts of
living the pitiful efforts Of our church
Sc to fill an untitled need are pathetic
pedagogic parody as compared with
+ the efficiency we spare no pains to de-
velop in every branch of vocational
J. training.
e THE fact about the whole matter.
{ in short, seems to be that we are think
l. ing about everything except the most
v crucial and fundamental of our prob
. lens and are building up vast struc-
u ture Of social organization without
ID any adequate sense of social purpose
,e or any clear understanding of the ne
r cessities and requirements Of social re.
= lationship. Yet it is evident that the
Is world cannot forever muddle along IL
l. its present state of intellectual confus
10 ion regarding the major problems O.
re its life and there is imminent DANCE
er of this great structure Of civilization
as (which men have built up, collapsint
at under its own weight unless we can ge
ut down to some of the psychological re
n alities, of life an dlearn to apply III,
in powers of intelligent human control t.
~ the developments of material human
lie progress. Here, then. is an angle o
d the world problem that concerns us all
es For there is no such thing as an alb
I'd stract intelligence that can solve ou
problems for US. The ONLY INTELLI
n GENCE that can be applied to presen
Of problems is the intelligence of which
10 you and |, my reader. and the multi
nv tude of our fellow men are capable
ar 1t is all in our minds, AND II
is OUR MINDS ALONE that the capac
T. | ity for new and creative thinking mus
IS be developed. Human life in thi
es world can only be improved and hu
an man social conditions only bettered b.
': human effort intelligently applied ant
A. directed. Nor can we too strongly EN-
~ phasize the importance of this intelli
K gent direction and this power of con
a. structive thought in any effort to I'M
at prove the world. For as Mr.. JOIN
ID Dewey points out in his recent book OF
~ Human Nature and Conduct" Will,
e. social revolution may effect abrup
in and deep alterations in external Gus
toms, in legal and political institutions
he yet actual social change is never 81
e. great as is APPARENT change, anc
e. wherever general and enduring mora
nj changes do accompany an externa
Of revolution it is because appropriate
r. habits Of thought have previously beer
NJ insensibly matured.
Be Another writer tells us: "As tn,
m world grows older its people Absorb
b. greater knowledge. and that knowledg,
v is transmitted from parent to son anc
is daughter. and the son or daughter alb
Of serbs additional knowledge as it ira
ID verses the years of infancy and juven
oe ility and in time passes the accumula
,g ton on to. its own offspring. In tn,
ID early ages Of mankind the world wa
Of ruled by ignorance. superstition. ans
a idolatry. Before the final eclipse Their
v will be such intelligence and enlighten