The Mind in the Making

The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform is by James Harvey Robinson. The contents list names sections called On Various Kinds of Thinking, Rationalizing and How Creative Thought Transforms the World, among others. The text calls the struggle the Three Hundred Years' War for intellectual freedom in dealing with natural phenomena, a conflict against ignorance, tradition, and vested interests in church and university. The writer says he means by social science our feeble efforts to study man, his natural equipment and impulses, and his relations to his fellows in the light of his origin and the history of the race.

The text says religious and mystical thought, in contrast to the secular philosophy of the Greeks and the scientific thought of our own day, dominated the intellectual life of the Middle Ages. The text says it would be possible for teachers tactfully to show not only how government is supposed to run, but how it actually is run.