Evening star., 1924-05-11

HAVE been busily engaged OF late
in preparing a Manual Of the
4 Human Mind. 1 give here some
parts and sections of IL as far
as it is yet completed. The final edi-
ton will be bound in half-calf for the
ordinary readers, with a university
education for scholars Complete
calf, and for the rich an edition de
luxe, sold at an addition de luxe.
For ever so many centuries the
human mind has lain more or less
dormant. 1t was known that it was
there. But just where 1t was and
what it did and how it did it was a
matter of which nothing. if anything.
was known.
All this has changed.
1t is generally admitted that the
human mind was first discovered
about four years ago by a brilliant
writer of that period His article,
Have We Subconscious Ego?" was
Immediately followed by a striking
discussion under the title. Are We
Top Side Up?" This brought forth
a whole series of popular articles and
books under such titles as Willing
and Being" How to Think" 'Ex-
istence as a Mode Of Thought" The
Super Self" and such special tech
nical studies as THE Mentality of
the Hen" and the Thought Process
of the Potato"
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EVERYBoDY'S mind is now anal
~ yzed. People who used to be
content with the humblest OF plain
thinking, or with none at all, now
resolve themselves into "reAexes" and
completes" and impulses" Some OF
our brightest people are kleptomani-
acs, paranoiacs, asoraphobists and
dolomites. Some of the biggest busi-
ness men have failed in the intelli-
gence test and have been ruined. A
lot OF our criminals turn out not to
be criminals at all, but merely to
have a reaction for another persons
money.
Mind waves and brainstorms blow
about like sand in the Sahara Things
good and bad come at US like an in
D fection. We live in deadly fear that
we may catch bolshevism, as we
US in waves" A New York chauffeur
chokes his employer, and it is called
a "crime wave" The man is rushed
of TO a rest house to have his com
pick removed, while the people leave
tho city in the food Then they hear
that a repentant burglar has given a
million dollars to Trinity Church, and
that moral wave is flooding over
the city, and they come back.
There is now not only psychology
in the academic or college sense, but
also 3 psychology OF business, psy-
chology of education, a psychology of
salesmanship, a psychology of re-
ligion, a psychology Of boxing, a psy-
chology of investment and a psy
choiogy of playing the banjo. In
short, everybody has his. In all our
great cities there are already. or soon
will be, signs that read "Psycholo-
Gtst-Open Day and Night"
The real meaning OF this is found
in the fact that we are nov able to
usc psychology as q guide or test in
a thousand and one practical mat
ters. In the old days there was no
way of knowing what a man could
60 except by trying him out. Now
we don't have to do this at all. We
merely measure the shape of his
head and see whether, by native in
teuigence, he can, Immediately and
offhand. pronounce TIL backward
Let us see, then, what the intelli-
gence test means.
IL we wish to realize how slipshod
Is the thinking of persons in appar-
emily sound mental condition we
have only to ask any man of our
acquaintance how much is 13 times
147. The large probability is that
he doesn't know. Or let us ask any
casual acquaintance how many cubic
centimeters there are in the Wool
worth building and his estimate will
bo found to be absurdly incorrect