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...current fiction. A Canadian interested in the matter points out in the "Educational Review" that seventeen American magazines have been officially barred from Canada because of the salacious character of their contents. In discussing this problem Professor BHss Perry says: "Pernicious is that class of books that identify human behavior with animal behavior...
...modern scientific theory of a common unity in all living organisms is the point of departure of the new tendencies. Evolution in particular has been seized upon by such writers. Human nature, they say, is mere animal nature. A school of psychology, which regards all human behavior as mechanistic, gives them substantial backing. Then Freud, with his theory of the evils of suppressed desires, confirms their conviction that one can do no wrong if he follows his instincts. A sort of righteous zeal, therefore, inspires the modern crusade to let truth have its way and show things as they really...
...occupied Germany had forced German municipalities to place German women and girls at the disposal of French troops for immoral purposes. Said Dr. Jung: "What other nation is in the frightful position that it is forced into prostituting its own womanhood at the behest of a foreign Power? The behavior of the occupation authorities is an outrage on civilization...
...community for its own protection, must impose the prescribed penalties, if such a nonconformist has the mentality to understand what Society expects of him. Definitions of legal insanity are designed to state the lack of mental capacity which one must display before not being held fully responsible for criminal behavior. What is the social value of mental tests, applied after the commission of a crime, which show a person
Recently Senator Joe T. Robinson felled with a fist-blow, on the Chevy Chase golf course in Washington, a fellow-golfer whose behavior displeased him. Mr. Robinson was suspended from the club (TIME, July 7) and later his suspension was made permanent...