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Joseph E. Evans letters, 1935-1954
1938-01-03 Joseph Evans to John & Mary Evans Page 3
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3 the whole thing over in favour of what he calls human engineering - planning for a better social structure based on scientific measurement of ability and temperament - and he has proved that these things can be measured. He runs an adult guidance service sponsored by the L.A. school system as an experiment, and has done wonders in straightening out people's lives. He also teaches at S.C. All this information, naturally, I have gathered not from him but from Blayney. I have known him for some time now, and it is largely through talks with him that I am gradually acquiring that peace of mind which to be enduring must come from within oneself and have no basis in material things. Whether this sounds silly or not, I feel that is essential to happiness, which incidentally I had more or less despaired of, for the very reason that I was measuring it in terms of money and worldly success. For this reason I feel that this whole
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3 the whole thing over in favour of what he calls human engineering - planning for a better social structure based on scientific measurement of ability and temperament - and he has proved that these things can be measured. He runs an adult guidance service sponsored by the L.A. school system as an experiment, and has done wonders in straightening out people's lives. He also teaches at S.C. All this information, naturally, I have gathered not from him but from Blayney. I have known him for some time now, and it is largely through talks with him that I am gradually acquiring that peace of mind which to be enduring must come from within oneself and have no basis in material things. Whether this sounds silly or not, I feel that is essential to happiness, which incidentally I had more or less despaired of, for the very reason that I was measuring it in terms of money and worldly success. For this reason I feel that this whole
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