"THE MIND IN THE MAKING"
(Continued)
By James Harvey Robinson
(Published by Harper and Brothers) ing, or make our knees as water. There sists in finding argnments for going on in the matter, and certainly no least
(Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Bros.) is a whole new literature growing up belseing as we already do. .argunsent to urge in favor of the belief
From "3. On Varione winds of Think. which studies the effects of our bodily I remember years ago attending a in which I had served. But neither
ing." secretions and our muscular tensions public dinner to which the Governor my personal indifference to the issue,
The truest and most profound obser- and their relation to our emotions and of this state was bidden. The chair- nor the fact that I had previously
vations on Intelligence have in the our thinking. . . . man explained that His Excellency given it no attention, served to pre-
past been made by the poets and, in 4. Rationalizing could not be present for certain "good" vent an angry resentment when I
ecent times,, by the story writers. "reasons; what the "real" reasons were heard my ideas questioned... .
Most philosophers, the other hand, "ai o ims wihousanyere- the presiding officer said he would The little word "my" is the most
have exhibitearstequte inothrancanging ouryninds without any re , leave us to conjecture. This distinc- important one in all human affairs,
have exhibited a grostesque ignoranceI sistance or heavy emotion, but if we to ewe "good" nd"e"ras. n rpryt eknwt ti h
of man's life and have built up s'y-(ion between "od and "real" reasons :and properly to reckon with it is the
are told that we are wrong we re- is one of the most clarifying and es- beginning of wisdom. It has the same
tems that are elaborate and imposing, sent the imputation and harden 'our sential in the whole realm of thought. force whether it is my dinner, my dog,
but quite unrelated to actual human hearts. . . . It is obviously not the We can readily give what seems to us and oy house, or my faith, my coon-
affairs. They have almost consistently ideas themselves that are dear to us, "good" reasons for being a Catholic or try, sd my God. 'We not only resent
neglected the actual process of but our self-esteem, which is threat- a Mason, a Republican or a Democrat, lie im'dutaion that our watch is
thought and 'have set the mind off a ened. We are by nature stubbornly en adherent or opponent of the League wrong, o our car s bahy, but that
something apart to be studied by it- pledged to defend our own from at- of Nations. But the "real" reasons our roncoption of the canals of Mars,
self. But no sac mind, exempt from tack, whether it be our person, our st tt,
bodily processes, animal inpulses, sav- family or our opinion. A United States are usually on quite a different plane. f the dIso ciet'on of 'Epictetus," of
ae traitions, infasitile impressios Senator once remarked to a friend of I'.' . . The Baptist missionary is ready the medicinal valise of salicine. of thle
age radtios, nfatil impessons Seato one rearkd t a ried I enough to see that the Buddhist is date of Sargon I, are subject to re-
conventional reactions, and traditional mine that God Almighty could not nouh to se ht the nBuddhist visd of.
knowledge, ever existed, even in -the make him change his mind on ourn
case of the most abstract of meta- Latin-American policy. We may sur- bear careful inspection, but because Philosophers, scholars, and men of
physicians. Kant entitled his great render, but rarely confess ourselves he happened to be born in a Buddhist science exhibit a common sensitive-
work "A Critique of Pure Reason." vanquished. In the Intellectual world family in Tokio. But it would be -(Continued on page 4)
But to the modern student of mind at least peace is without victory. treason to his faith to acknowledge
pure reason seems as mythical as the Few of us take the pains to study that his own partiality for certain doc-
pure gold . . .. the origin of our cherished convic- trines is due to the fact that his moth-
The insufficient elimination of the tions; indeed, we have a natural re- er was a member of the First Baptist
foul and decaying products of diges- pugnance to so doing. We like to schurch of Oak Ridge. . . lsiIltltI11Il1llll nlllull
(ion may plunge us into deep melan- continue to believe what we have been . . . I remember when as a
choly, whereas a few whiffs of nitrous accustomed to accept as true, and the youth I heard a group of business men
monoxide may exalt us to the seventh resentment aroused when doubt is cast discussing the question of immortality
heaven of supernal knowledge and spon any of our assumptions leads of the soul. I was outraged by the
godlike complacency. And vice versa, us to seek every manner of excuse for sentiment of doubt expressed by o0e
a sudden word or thought may cause clinging to them. The result is that of the party. As I look back now I
our heart to jump, check our breath- most of our so-called reasoning con- see that I had at. the time no interest
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Two Minutc Talks
by D. J.'l J. P. for
The Ann Arbor Savings Bank
IF YOU would go into any community in
the United States and ask to talk with the
new residents you might get an interesting
sidelight on humannature. Or if you have
any new neighbors you might accomplish the
same thing by talking with them. Simply ask
them how they like the community and how
they are getting along. They will assure you
that they never came in contact with nicer
folks and that everyone has treated them "just
lovely." Then they will add with a sad smile
that "of course they miss the folks back home."
We say they are homesick. We mean that
they haven't yet had time to see and appre-
ciate all the good qualities of their new neigh-
bors and conseruently their old neighbors look'
infinitely bette than they really are.
But the fact remains that old friends are old
friends and they always hold first place in our
'hearts. It takes months and years to know
people and make friends, but when a friend-
ship is formed in such a way it is not easily
put aside. The reason for this is, of course,
that such a friendship is built on loyality, in-
tegrity and service to each other.'
This is true not only with individuals, but with
every kind of business unit. A corporation has
friendships just as much as-an individual and it
can become homesick for its old friends or its
old friends can be lonely for it, just as much
as two people can miss each other. People
are too prone to consider business units as mere
commercial entities and forget that they are
composed of real human beings.
If you doubt that business has a touch of human
interest just allow yourself to become intimately
acquainted with your banker and you will
probably decide that after all, business friend-
ships, like personal friendships, are based on
just three things, namely, loyality, integrity, and
service.
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