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Mind in Making

"If some magical transformation could be produced in men's ways of looking at themselves and their fellows, no inconsiderable part of the evils which now afflict society would vanish away or remedy themselves automatically. If the majority of influential persons held the opinions and occupied the point of view that a few rather uninfluential people now do, there would, for instance, be no likelihood of another great war; the whole problem of "labor and capital" would be transformed and attenuated; national arrogance, race animosity, political corruption, and inefficiency would all be reduced below the danger point. As an old Stoic proverb has it, men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, rather than by the things themselves. This is eminently true of many of our worst problems today. We have available knowledge and ingenuity and material resources to make a far fairer world than that in which we find ourselves, but various obstacles prevent our intelligently availing ourselves of them. The object of this book is to substantiate this proposition, to exhibit with entire frankness the tremendous difficulties that stand in the way of such a beneficent change of mind, and to point out as clearly as may be some of the measures to be taken in order to overcome them"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

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  • ""If some magical transformation could be produced in men's ways of looking at themselves and their fellows, no inconsiderable part of the evils which now afflict society would vanish away or remedy themselves automatically. If the majority of influential persons held the opinions and occupied the point of view that a few rather uninfluential people now do, there would, for instance, be no likelihood of another great war; the whole problem of "labor and capital" would be transformed and attenuated; national arrogance, race animosity, political corruption, and inefficiency would all be reduced below the danger point. As an old Stoic proverb has it, men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, rather than by the things themselves. This is eminently true of many of our worst problems today. We have available knowledge and ingenuity and material resources to make a far fairer world than that in which we find ourselves, but various obstacles prevent our intelligently availing ourselves of them. The object of this book is to substantiate this proposition, to exhibit with entire frankness the tremendous difficulties that stand in the way of such a beneficent change of mind, and to point out as clearly as may be some of the measures to be taken in order to overcome them"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)."@en
  • ""If some magical transformation could be produced in men's ways of looking at themselves and their fellows, no inconsiderable part of the evils which now afflict society would vanish away or remedy themselves automatically. If the majority of influential persons held the opinions and occupied the point of view that a few rather uninfluential people now do, there would, for instance, be no likelihood of another great war; the whole problem of "labor and capital" would be transformed and attenuated; national arrogance, race animosity, political corruption, and inefficiency would all be reduced below the danger point. As an old Stoic proverb has it, men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, rather than by the things themselves. This is eminently true of many of our worst problems today. We have available knowledge and ingenuity and material resources to make a far fairer world than that in which we find ourselves, but various obstacles prevent our intelligently availing ourselves of them. The object of this book is to substantiate this proposition, to exhibit with entire frankness the tremendous difficulties that stand in the way of such a beneficent change of mind, and to point out as clearly as may be some of the measures to be taken in order to overcome them"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)."
  • ""If some magical transformation could be produced in men's ways of looking at themselves and their fellows, no inconsiderable part of the evils which now afflict society would vanish away or remedy themselves automatically. If the majority of influential persons held the opinions and occupied the point of view that a few rather uninfluential people now do, there would, for instance, be no likelihood of another great war; the whole problem of "labor and capital" would be transformed and attenuated; national arrogance, race animosity, political corruption, and inefficiency would all be reduced below the danger point. As an old Stoic proverb has it, men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, rather than by the things themselves. This is eminently true of many of our worst problems today. We have available knowledge and ingenuity and material resources to make a far fairer world than that in which we find ourselves, but various obstacles prevent our intelligently availing ourselves of them. The object of this book is to substantiate this proposition, to exhibit with entire frankness the tremendous difficulties that stand in the way of such a beneficent change of mind, and to point out as clearly as may be some of the measures to be taken in order to overcome them"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)"
  • "This is an essay -- not a treatise -- on the most important of all matters of human concern. Although it has cost its author a great deal more thought and labor than will be apparent, it falls, in his estimation, far below the demands of its implacably urgent theme ... It suggests but the beginning of the beginning now being made to raise men's thinking onto a plain which may perhaps enable them to fend off or reduce some of the dangers which lurk on every hand--Pref."@en
  • "This influential 1921 scholarly work sounded a call for intellectual freedom, which the author believed to be under attack by authoritarian tendencies in the United States. The centuries-long gains in scientific knowledge needed to be brought to bear in overcoming growing social ills and the forces of repression. The book considers Plato and Aristotle's influence on thinking, science, revolution, repression, the power of creative thought to transform the world, and the sickness of an acquisitive society."@en
  • "An essay on the most important of all matters of human concern."@en

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  • "Statistics"
  • "Ressources Internet"
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  • "History"
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  • "Mind in Making"@en
  • "Die Schule des Denkens : von der Bedeutung des Verstandes für den Aufstieg der Menschheit"
  • "The Mind in the Making"
  • "The Mind in the Making"@en
  • "The Mind in the making... [New edition, reprinted.]"
  • "The mind in the making : [the relation of intelligence to social reform]"@en
  • "The Mind in the Making. (Second edition.)"@en
  • "The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform"@en
  • "Mind in the Making"
  • "The Mind in the Making by James Harvey Robinson : With an Introduction by H.G. Wells"
  • "The Mind in the Making, etc"@en
  • "The mind in the making the relation of intelligence to social reform.With an introd.by stuart chase"
  • "The Mind in the Making. The relation of intelligence to social reform"@en
  • "The Mind in the making : the relation of intelligence to social reform, by James Harvey Robinson"
  • "The Mind in the Making, etc. (New and revised edition.)"@en
  • "The mind in the making the relation of intelligence to social reform"
  • "The mind in the making the relation of intelligence to social reform"@en
  • "The mind in the making : the relation of intelleigence to social reform"
  • "The mind in the making : the relation of intelligence to social reform; with editorial notes by Leonard F. Dean and Charles C. Walcutt"@en
  • "The mind in the making: the relation of intelligence to social reform"@en
  • "The mind in the making: the relation of intelligence to social reform"
  • "The Mind in the Making. With an Introd. by H.G. Wells"@en
  • "The mind in the making : the relations of intelligence to social reform"
  • "Die Schule des Denkens"
  • "The mind in the making; the relation of intelligence to social reform"
  • "The mind in the making; the relation of intelligence to social reform"@en
  • "The mind in the making : The relation of intelligence to social reform"
  • "Die Schule des Denkens : von d. Bedeutung d. Verstandes für d. Aufstieg d. Menschheit"
  • "The Mind in the making : the relation of intelligence to social reform"
  • "The Mind in the making, by James Harvey Robinson, with an introduction by H. G. Wells"
  • "Die Schule des Denkens : von der Bedeutung des Verstandes fur den Aufstieg der Menschheit"
  • "Mind in the making"@en
  • "The mind in the making : the relation of intelligence to social reform"@en
  • "The mind in the making : the relation of intelligence to social reform"
  • "The mind in the making"@en
  • "The mind in the making"
  • "The mind in the making : The relation of intelligence to social reform. With an introd. by Stuart Chase"
  • "The mind in the making/ James Harvey Robinson ; With introd. by H.G. Wells"
  • "The Mind in the making"@en
  • "The Mind in the making"

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