THE AVERAGE HUMAN MIND NOT WORKING.
"Imagine a groat factory wlicro little or no work is done: buildings ihnl cover acres, miles on miles of corridors, rooms after rooms, machines of n hundred different kinds,, Every known scientific device, ovory known scientific principle in nsunblo form is embodied; i|i one room or another; equipment more perfect than anything ever before dreamed of, " Hut that whole great plant, with all its possibilities, all its intricate niec.hnnisni, is standing idle, not abandoned, but not kept up. Only the footfalls of wiitchnion echo along the empty corridors: cobwebs nr.e across the windows, around the door knobs, between the spokes of the great flywheels, timl thick dust over evory T tliinjj. The delicately adjusted machinery is motionless, rusting silently I away; the whole wonderful plant, • with all its marvellous equipment, practically going to wnste. "What is it? That's a leading psychologist's picture of the average liuraan mind," says Collier 'a Weekly,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16348, 4 February 1924, Page 3
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157THE AVERAGE HUMAN MIND NOT WORKING. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16348, 4 February 1924, Page 3
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