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TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  \n Roproductions may not be made without permisslon from Columbia Unlversity Lbraries.              \n# TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\nFILM SIZE:          35mmREDUCTION BATIO:            1/:/  \nMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nDATE FILMED:                    4-7-92INITIALS:         6  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                              23409  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n# 三\n\n## THE MIND\n\nIN A  \nCOMPLEX AGE  \nAn Address Delivered at theFifty-sixth Annual Commencementof the University  \nBY  \nJOHN SUNDWALL,Ph.D.,M.D.  \nProfessor of Hygiene and Public HealthUniversity of Michigan  \nPUBLISHED BY  \nUNIVERSITY OF UTAHSALT LAKE CITY  \nTHE MIND  \nIN A  \nCOMPLEX AGE  \nAn Address Delivered at theFifty-sixth Annual Commencementof the University  \nBY  \nJOHN SUNDWALL,Ph.D.,M.D.  \nProfessor of Hygiene and Public HealthUniveraity of Michigan  \nPUBLISHED BY  \nUNIVERSITY OF UTAH  \nSALT LAKE CITY  \nTHE MIND IN A COMPLEX AGE  \nJoHN SUNDWALL,PH.D,M.D.  \nProfessor of Hygiene and Publie Health,University of Michigan.  \nHuman Nature.  \nSo far as our anthropological and paleontological evidencegoes there has been little if any change in the human being sincethe last ice age,25,000 to 50,000 years ago.In all likelihood thehuman nature which characterized the Cro-Magnon of the upperPaleolithic times,at the end of the fourth glacial period,wasthe human nature which characterizes mankind today.This hu-man nature is made up largely of instincts and emotions onwhich has been superimposed varying degrees of intelligence andeducation.On the whole,however,most reactions of mankindare instinctive,impulsive,emotional.People do things becausethey feel that way,—not because it is the intelligent thing to do.To\"feel\"is intuitive;it is easy.On the other hand,to think,to do a thing because it is the intelligent thing to do,is diffcult.Relatively few people reach this mode of reaction.  \nIt is difficult to react intelligently,to keep an open mind,tocreate and adopt new ideas.It is human nature to become boundby habits and customs.Traditions or folkways become as rigidand fixed as the bed of the river along the mountain side.Theolder the individual becomes the more conservative he becomes,the more fixed he becomes.He is pretty well satisfied with theexisting culture,or state of affairs.He fears change in any form.  \nHuman progress is a difficult thingHumanity at largedoes not progress because of any particular innate desire to doso.It changes its ways of doing things when compelled to do so,and the things that coerce humanity to alter and shift its inter-ests and activities are the material products of its inventions anddiscoveries.These material products persist.They become moreor less permanent.They tend to accumulate and pile up as timegoes on.And humanity adjusts itself slowly,retardingly,tothem.  \n4  \nMaterial Culture.  \nAn appropriate term for this vast accumulation of thingswhich have come down to us from the past and are being aug-mented rapidly at the present time is material culture.Our mate-rial culture is not generally the product of any purposeful de-sign.On the contrary,it is the result of man's curiosity,andinstincts for construction.In the largest measure it is accidental.Some one may discover or develop something today which mayprofoundly influence our future mode of living.For example,note how the chance discovery of the explosive nature of gasmixed with air under pressure has affected our civilization.Whether the automobile,in the long run,is going to prove to bean asset to humanity or a liability,is problematical.But wedon't care very much.For the present at least,we find it to bean agreeable convenience,and it dominates many of our waysof doing 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