Popular Science Monthly - Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
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have sound bodies and abounding energy.
The harsher phases of the human struggle may pass and wars may cease, but the old contests of races, nations and individuals will continue under other forms. As the race grows older life will become more largely mental. The increasing complexity of human relations and the more delicate adjustments that these relations require will bring a new and finer social order that will make higher demands upon reason. While there is no evidence that experience or time or training will ever change the structure of the brain, it is probable that we have as yet but imperfectly utilized our mental possibilities. Stratton says: Out of the depths of the mind new powers are always emerging.[2] [2] "Experimental Psychology and Culture," George M. Stratton. Back of the mental life, and making it possible, are the energies of the body, the functioning of the animal in man, which in the brain are changed to the higher uses of the mind. The ability to execute, to act effectively, to do and keep doing, to do the work of the professional man, the banker, or the scientist, all this is primarily physical, and from top to |
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