Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 24 March 1937, Page 6

Timely Topics

THE PSYCHOLOGISTS. “Schools of psychology have, in all probability, existed since the time when man first became curious about the workings cf his own mind. Certainly there are indications of their existence in all the known records of this curiosity,” writes Professor J. C. Flugel, of the University of London, in “Character and Personality.” “With- equal certainty we may assert,” adds Prbfessor Flugel, “that futime historians will regard the first third of the twentieth century as a period characterised by an immense proliferation of such schools. Their presence testifies to a very welcome activity on the part of sudents of human and animal behaviour: at the same time, by their diversity of outlook, terminology and method, they darken counsel, produce a very natural distrust and bewilderment in the plain man, and prevent psychologists themselves from speaking with authority or combining in effective collaboration on almost any subject whatsoever, however much the chaos of human affairs, cries out for their assistance.” ® ’ H ® ’ B Words Of Wisdom Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; he humbly what you aspire to be. Man’s noblest gift to man is his sincerity, for it embraces his integrity also. —Thoreau. fi !§''!» a Tale Of The Day. “What shall we do with Willie?” “What’s he done now?” “Well, now he wants to eat with a knife because he says .his fork leaks.”