James Harvey Robinson
The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson (1921) is a book on our Self-improvement shelf. Robinson's popular 1921 essay on why we think as we do, and how intelligence could be used to revise inherited ideas instead of merely defending them. It suits readers interested in self-improvement, and it is legally free from Project Gutenberg. Licence: Public domain in the USA (check your country).
Download free from Project GutenbergRobinson's popular 1921 essay on why we think as we do, and how intelligence could be used to revise inherited ideas instead of merely defending them. He traces the creative, rationalising and animal sides of the mind, and argues that social reform starts with better thinking. A readable companion to Dewey's more systematic How We Think.
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