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...appearance, he is a typical Romano- high forehead, heavy overhanging brows, full mouth, quantities of white hair which was once jet black. His ideas are modern, too modern for some of his followers. Not long ago, he proposed at his own expense to erect a statue to Galileo, famed scientist, equally famed as a heretic. Pisa went mad. Nevertheless, he is extremely popular and is known as the "War Cardinal" because he advocated a fight-to-the-finish policy. He is a great friend of the Royal Family and it is rumored that Premier Mussolini once suggested making...
Although modern psychology no longer classifies bellicosity among the original instincts, its phenomenona continue to perplex the scientist and to disturb the moralist. The most conflicting claims are made for war: it is beneficial, necessary, and inevitable, or it is harmful, unnecessary, and willful...
...that college training "teaches a man to think." Possibly it does, but perhaps it rather relieves his mind of confusion and illusion, replacing these with fact and clarity, in proportion to his industry and mental alertness. This hypothesis would seem to be supported by the theory of an English scientist, who says that sixteen years is the age at which a man reaches his maximum intelligence: after that he may sow study, reap facts, thresh theories, feed on observation, and digest experience; but he will never possess a sharper mental instrument than at the end of his boyhood...
...second place, what is this "intelligence" which the scientist tries to measure? Intelligence tests emphasize mental precision, and quickness of apprehension; but what of the slower processes which culminate in full comprehension? Certainly these also are a part of intelligence. Furthermore, common experience proves that acquired facts can bring greater exactness and a larger ability to solve new problems...
Christian Scientist...