THE PSYCHOLOGISTS.
" Scbools of psychology have, in all probability, existed sinee the time when man first beeame curious about the workings of 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 TJniversity of London, in " Character and Personality." il With equal certainty we may assert," adds Professor Flugel, "that future 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 students of human and animal behaviour; at the same time, by their diversity of outlook, terminology and method, they darken eounsel, produce a very natural distrust and hewilderment in the plain- man, and prevent psyehologists themselves from speaking with authority or comhining in efifeetive collaboration on almost any suhject whatsoever, howgv§r much the chaos of human affairs cries out for .Iheir iisistancj'"
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 69, 8 April 1937, Page 4
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