PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY CLUB

Evening Star, Issue 22383, 6 July 1936, Page 14

PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY CLUB

‘ The Law of Progression ’ was the subject under discussion at the Dunedin Practical Psychology Club last Thursday evening. Progress, it was stated, was the act of pressing forward and upward in any particular pathway of life, or in any special department of work_ in which one was disposed to exercise one’s talents and abilities. Jt meant growth, expansion, and advancement, and one principal embodied in this law of progression was that everything grew by expansion from within outward, and to this all things in physical nature bore testimony.

Progress was most essential for the fullest expression of man’s latent powers, and a necessary factor in attaining enduring success. Enthusiasm was necessary to draw forth his best energies, and a lack of enthusiasm had doomed many a man to failure. All true progress necessitated also a certain amount of renunciation and detachment, a letting go of a lesser good to attain to a greater. Man must learn to let go all that was worn out, all that was absolutely non-essential to the new and higher unfoldment. To cling to worn-out theories or methods which had served their purpose in the past, but were now useless to meet the needs of a prograssive generation, was to stagnate, and stagnation meant death to the form that was ensouled by the great onward moving life wave. One of the first lessons man required to learn in the principle underlying the law of progression was unselfish service to others. By service more was learned than by directing, and he who could