Psychological Quarterly Retrospect
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It is recorded of Heimdall, tlie warder of the Scandinavian gods, that the subtlety of his ear was so great that he could hear the grass growing in the meadows, and the wool on the hacks of the sheep. There is a segment of society who, lacking this acuteness of sense and perception, deny or doubt the progressive intellectual and moral growth of the nation. They cannot trace this growth from day to day; nay, so far as their observation extends, the nation appears to be, if anything, deteriorating. This, it is said or implied, may be gathered from the experience of a single life-time. Whom have we now comparable with the mental giants who lived in the days of our childhood ? When did society ever exhibit such signs of rottenness at the core as it now does?
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دوره 13 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016