The Training of Mind and Well

In the course of my duties, as Director of Education in England for the Y.M.C.A., I first met Dr Tudor Jones at a camp in Nottinghamshire, where I listened to a lecture on Civics to a large audience of new recruits. They were lads of eighteen collected for the most part from mining villages. His audience followed him with close attention whilst he talked to them of Values Evidently, he was telling them things which they wished to hear. It was equally clear that the General and his Staff felt, as I felt myself, that the things about which he was speaking were things that it is desirable that everyone should understand. Dr Tudor Jones is a trained philosopher who has the rare gift of seeing problems from the point of view of those to whom they are absolutely new, and of presenting the fruits of philosophy in the familiar language of everyday affairs. In this little book he has reproduced the substance of in numerable lectures in much the same form in which they were delivered. The least trained mind can grasp the surface meaning of every sentence. Only a psychologist will appreciate the wisdom which lies beneath...FROM THE BOOKS.