Show VIRGINIA STIVERS BARTLETT WRITES i MISTRESS of I 1 MONTEREY not fiction instead the I 1 true story about a wilful woman whose name lives live in I 1 annals of spanish Califor californian nial lo la gobernadora who battled both church and 1 state to take her husband from the land he loved the country she would forsake to live once more in in old mexico mistress of monterey Is a story you IN THIS PAPER WAS A PIONEER IN MM MANY REAMS REALMS OF SCIENCE marking the anniversary of his birth plans are made to commemorate his contributions to science and philosophy E MAN U EL the anniversary ot of whose birth will be observed on january 29 1938 was one of the great scientific pioneers ot of his day part ot of his lite life was devoted to a science almost unknown in his time psychology though he lived and died before the american revolution evolved a psychological system astonishingly modern in its views ot of the individuals relation to society and in its completeness answering many questions only partially dealt with by psychologists ot of toda today Y two centuries ago thinking on the subject ot of the nature ot of the mind was almost entirely confined to the philosophers who produced dead and abstract t theories they did not base their psychology on an any y practical observation ot of nature began his study of the mind and its relation to the body by thorough research in physiology and in these studies was the first to arrive at certain modern conceptions of the functions and activity ot of the brain and the nervous system this physiological approach Is now taken as a matter ot of course by modern psychologists who study exhaustively hau the mechanisms ot of mental life and the machinery which underlies our thinking Sweden bor with his training as a philosopher was not satisfied to stop at this point but carried his investigations into the nature ot of mind or spirit in its relation to the body he came to regard the body as the tha region in which mind or spirit functioned in his earlier work he wrote of the actions ot of the body in their effect on states of m mind ind one volume he published treated of the interaction ot of various states ot of mind freud and other modern psychologists have developed similar views to Sweden borgs that the mind Is made up of different forces and impulses and functions on different levels of consciousness held the view years ago that the mind functions on different planes and that we are usually unconscious of most ot of its activities he held that the practical problem of life boach foach human being la 13 to evolve harmony out of these conflicting mental forces and states that this can he be achieved by mental growth on the spiritual plane unlike the idealistic philosophers i 77 f Z emanuel who preceded him he be believed that spiritual growth cannot be achieved in withdrawal from everyday life the natural ar is the servant and expression ot of the spiritual and natural things have a correspondence with spiritual things the souls salvation or mental health depends on a practical life ot of usefulness in the tha natural world with acknowledgment ot of a divine power lower which la 18 greater than the individual and operates through him tor for good according to Sweden horg the tha earlier christian ideal ol of withdrawal from the world and complete self abnegation was psychologically unsound in the ordinary business and pleasures of life the personality fanda expression and growth in usefulness to society and in recognition ot of the tha divine harmony that operates through all things information regarding the life and achievements of will be sent without charge by ap applies applina tion to the foundation new york city Sweden borgs contributions to physiology by MAX NEUBERGER MO MD professor of the history of medicine university of vienna everybody that has even made a slight acquaintance with the two chief anatomical physiological works of the swedish aristotle knows that there is ic scarcely arcely a chapter in them but surprises us with brilliant anticipations ot of modern science wherever we penetrate into the tha mine of Sweden borgs physiology we strike a vein ot of metal so rich that the tha united un cited strenuous efforts ot of several savants savanis will te be needed to raise the tha whole ot of it |