This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII REPORT ON QUESTIONNAIRE RETURNS Their value suggestive but only for a class--(1) Effects of the first realization of the approach of old age--(2) To what do you ascribe your long life?--(3) How do you keep well?--(4) Are you troubled by regrets?--(5) What temptations do you feel--old or ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII REPORT ON QUESTIONNAIRE RETURNS Their value suggestive but only for a class--(1) Effects of the first realization of the approach of old age--(2) To what do you ascribe your long life?--(3) How do you keep well?--(4) Are you troubled by regrets?--(5) What temptations do you feel--old or new? (6) What duties do you feel you still owe to others or to self?--(7) Is interest in public affairs for the far future and past, as compared with what is closer at hand, greater or less?--(8) In what do you take your greatest pleasures?--(9) Do you enjoy the society of children, youth, adults, those of your own age, more or less than formerly?--(10) Would you live your life over again?--(11) Did you experience an "Indian summer" of renewed vigor before the winter of age began?--(12) Do you rely more or less upon doctors than formerly?--(13) Do you get more or less from the clergy and the church than formerly?--(14) Do you think more or less of dying and the Hereafter?--A few individual returns from eminent people. Perhaps no one but a genetic psychologist can realize how very widely the successive stages of life in man differ from each other. Underneath the tenuous memory continuum that is the chief basis of all feeling of identity between our present and former selves, deeper even than every unity of life plan and persistence of disposition, are the great changes the years bring. These are, indeed, so great that although they very commonly modulate, each into the next stage of the series by almost imperceptible gradations, we all really live not one but a succession of lives. Further than this, just as in dementia praecox the normal development of the psyche is permanently arrested in a juvenile stage, so, but far more commonly, the...
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