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Show JUST WHAT IS THE HUMAN MIND? What is the mind? In The New Psychology." by Herbert Her-bert L Wilbur, the author declares it 1 to ie the sum total of all the Impressions Impres-sions we get and sava tho sum total 1b constantly increasing This, he concludes, explains the fact that all men are of a different size, mentally tho fact that old men know more than young men also, that a fpv young men know more than some other meu ever knew all their lives Mr. Wilbur adds: Herein, too, Is where men have the advantage of women men moving about in the world outside where the sum total Is greatest women staying more on the inside, in the house but as above, some women know more than some men. The salvation of all of us Is to hike to the right place Finally, herein we have the basis of sound optimism for not only must a man keep growing better dally and hourly and cannot grov worse, but the same is true of all things all things keop growjng better and Im prove All these things true of the Individual are true likewise of all groups, both large and small, the basic laws and customs of the -roup manifesting the mind of the mass. The psychology of the individual and of the group 8 the fame. Nations think; feel, will; nations 6peak, nations do things; nations move, and have position posi-tion and place "The mind is constantly reaching "lit for nvv material and means, and constantly absorbing and approprlat ng all possible, from all thines about. the mmd is one constant question constantly seeking its answer and con6tantl demanding new material, upon which alone It can thrive Its growth greatest during its periods of activity and least during its periods of rest all this growth and increment geometrical progressions In the beginning be-ginning Imperceptibly slow toward the end astonishingly fast. |