CHAPTER XV 

 REFORM 



PROGRESS depends on two essential qualities 

 quickness of action and slowness of thought. 

 The first results from a mental differentiation 

 which increases alertness, and the second 

 springs from an opposing tendency toward slow- 

 ness. To differentiate and to become strong 

 in one direction, is to remain naturally weak in 

 the other. Education should consciously meet 

 this deficiency. The strong side of each per- 

 son is the result of a natural differentiation 

 which comes of itself when social conditions 

 permit, but the weak side having no natural 

 support so tends to be dwarfed by progress 

 that care is necessary to maintain its position. 



The strong and the weak in men arise to- 

 gether, and are parts of the same differentia- 

 tion. If a person has periods of elation, due to 

 a fund of surplus energy outing itself through 

 natural characters, he will also be subject to 

 spells of melancholy when his energy is below 



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