This is where psychology, psychiatry, phrenology and other sciences got their idea. (Phrenology was a study which believed the shape of the person’s skull related to his character and intelligence.) These sciences must have started out with the idea that they had to do something about man because he was so wicked that he was liable to hurt somebody else, or something of that sort. They must have had a motive of this kind because they immediately assumed—and now we’re talking to you about a scientific fact; a scientific fact we can demonstrate any day—they must have assumed that he was evil because they didn’t change him.
It’s an interesting thing. We didn’t assume man was good; we didn’t assume he was evil. We just decided to look at him. And we started to change him in any way, shape or form that he could be changed, and we found out that he didn’t just change in the direction of good—as soon as you started to change him all the way along the line in the direction of good, as soon as you started to give him a pat on the back and help all hands in all directions, he didn’t just change—it was like taking your hand off a compressed bedspring!
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