The engineer, in repairing a bridge, has to have some idea of what a bridge is supposed to do, what loads it is supposed to carry, how strong it has to be and what might be expected to wreck it again. This is simple reasoning. The engineer does not look at this bridge he is supposed to repair, sigh, say the problem is too complicated, bicker with several other “authorities” on bridges, put some dynamite in the wrong place and blow it up and then wonder why there isn’t any bridge left and begin to explain to passersby that he was called too late, that was all, that bridges aren’t much good anyway.
Yet one fears this has been the method of address to the problem of the human mind and body.
To begin a rehabilitation of a human mind and body, one should know something about their optimum state. That would be the beginning of the answer as to how the mind and body could be rehabilitated. Further, it would be the beginning of an answer as to what environment and conditions best favor the human body and the human mind. After that, one could devise means of achieving an optimum condition.
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