Man's Proper Study
F I should ask for a gift over and above my own very modest portion, it would be for a retentive memory. What grace can excel a mind full of anecdote as well as intelligence? And indeed, what use, culturally speaking, is a naked intelligence without that store of material upon which it ought to be exercised? It was precisely this richness which F. L. Combs brought
to his first two 5xYC talks on "Types of Personality." Mr, Combs believes that the proper study of mankind is man and that the best fields for its exploration are the novel and_ history. In dealing in each talk with different types, e.g., the constructive and vainglorious, he was able to range far and wide without straining the net, an important point. It is easy to start off on a long journey in the wrong footwear ‘and find the going hard before you have travelled the least part of a jour-
ney you know quite well. Mr. Combs was happy, too, in the choice of Mr. Farley, a reader who, despite the occasional slip, delivered the whole with understanding, a thing which does not always happen when someone else reads.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 667, 18 April 1952, Page 11
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201Man's Proper Study New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 667, 18 April 1952, Page 11
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