Word: mind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been proved experimentally that there are several distinct types of minds which assimilate under different conditions. The man with the auditory mind learns by hearing or reading; the visual minds learns by seeing; and the motor minds learns by doing. The present system of education completely overlooks the third type and gives only half a chance to the second. The man who is skilfull with his hands--the mechanic, the painter, or the musician, is not given the same opportunity for development in an ordinary school that the pure student receives. Although Dr. Abbott recognizes that some men master languages...
...cause to fear Russia. Japan harbors no hatred for the Russian people, but we cannot help instinctively fearing Bolshevism, lest it sweep away the age-old morality on which Japan has been built. I do not conceive of Bolshevism as being entirely bad--the fault is that the ignorant mind takes too literally anything new and striking. When affairs in Russia have settled down we shall be able to judge as to the faults and merits of the system that has been adopted. Today there is no unified Russian mind or opinion, and we can only judge from the fragmentary...
...changes it has brought to pass. I am confident that the spirit of sacrifice and the realization of the meaning of Christianity which the war brought to the world will not disappear now that we have returned to peace. The war left too deep an impress on the human mind to let us turn again to our former selfish, shallow ways...
...however," he answered, "that in my mind there can be no question that the human being continues in one form or other. There is no death and it should be impossible for us to conceive of any save as a passing on to some higher sphere. Death should not be a matter for grief but for rejoicing -when the body dies the soul continues unhampered to a happier, completer world...