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The Story of the Mind

CHAPTER IX
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One may then actually see the growth of the sort of judgment which I am describing.

Psychologists are coming to see that even the child's sense of his own personal self is a gradual attainment, achieved step by step through his imitative responses to his personal environment.

His thought of himself is an interpretation of his thought of others, and his thought of another is doe to further accommodation of his active processes to changes in his thought of a possible self.

Around this fundamental movement in his personal growth all the values of his life have their play.

So I say that his sense of truth in the social relationships of his environment is the outcome of his very gradual learning of his personal place in these relationships.
We reach the conclusion, therefore, from this part of our study, that the socially unfit person is the person of poor judgment.


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