[The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of the Mind CHAPTER IX 17/21
The psychologist might prefer to say that a man "feels" this; perhaps it would be better for psychological readers to say simply that he has a "sense" of it; but the popular use of the word "judgment" fits so accurately into the line of distinction we are now making that we may adhere to it.
So we reach the general position that the eligible candidate for social life must have good judgment as represented by the common standards of judgment of his people. It may be doubted, however, by some of my readers whether this sense of social values called judgment is the outcome of suggestions operating throughout the term of one's social education.
This is an essential point, and I must just assume it.
It follows from what we said in an earlier chapter to be the way of the child's learning by imitation.
It will appear true, I trust, to any one who may take the pains to observe the child's tentative endeavours to act up to social usages in the family and school.
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