The Qualities of Men Author:Joseph Jastrow Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE THIS essay must itself carry its message and justify its mission. An introductory word cannot illuminate its purpose ; though it may facilitate the ap... more »proach, as a sign-board points the way and avoids the disappointment of an unexpected destination. A study of the qualities of men in which a psychological interest in humanity is prominent, may properly be expected to undertake an analysis rof the fundamental factors in [human nature; their transformation in human nurture ; and their values in growth, education, and vocation. This is indeed the basal problem in the psychology of human traits. I have not slighted it, and am engaged [in a modest attempt to interpret what modern psychology has to say onthe subject. To that interpretation I propose to give the title " Character and Temperament," a combination of terms, that by the consensus of recent writers has again become current with a richer and more scientific meaning. In the preparation for that work, I found the more general bearings of the problems of human quality constantly growing in interest and insistently demanding formulation. I found, too, that their treatment made natural a more general form of statement and a wider appeal; while yet it could be reconciled to a seeming neglect of the psychological analysis at closer range. The present essay thus represents an expansion of the conclusions of a study, the preliminaries of which are not overlooked but merged in the composite contours of a generalizing interest. The material has passed through the stages of a paper before a Literary Club, of a Commencement address, and thePREFACE ix concluding one of a course of eight lectures on " Character and Temperament," delivered at Columbia University in March and April 1910. University Of Wisconsin, Madiso...« less