POLITICAL LEADERS
A LOT OF ADOLESCENTS. LONDON, August 16. The reason why there is so much talk about war to-day is that the world is ruled by child psychology, says Dr. Elizabeth Chesser, Harley Street specialist. The majority of politicians, Dr. Chesser says, have the psychological make-up of the adolescent. Indeed, very few so-called normal adults have passed the age of sixteen or seventeen from the psychological point of view. That is why many people are always wanting to know what life is going to give, whereas they should be concerned with what they can give life. Dr. Chesser recalled that the daughter of Professor Huxley had told her of her mother’s indignation when she heard her six-months-old baby crying. She went upstairs and found the professor holding the baby and Charles {Darwin pricking it with a (pin and recording its reactions to pain. Later they gave it sugar and recorded its reactions to pleasure. '
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1934, Page 5
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