Understanding yourself : the mental hygiene of personality / by Ernest R. Groves.
- Ernest R. Groves
- Date:
- [1935]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Understanding yourself : the mental hygiene of personality / by Ernest R. Groves. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I THE HUMAN QUEST One of the oldest of our eastern cities is blessed by a hotel which offers to its guests unusual food and comfort. Its reputation among traveling men is such that the veterans of the road, whenever in the course of their business they get within twenty miles of it, always seek it for a night’s lodging, if possible. One of its pleasant features is extraordinarily large plate glass windows, fronting the lobby, that are snug up against the sidewalk. Many times have I sat in the large chairs with upholstering as thick as pillows, facing the street, and watched the people pass. One gets so intimate a glimpse of the faces of the men, women, and children who hurry by as to have the impres¬ sion of an endless film of life always unwinding. Never have I sat there looking out without sooner or later notic¬ ing how few faces seemed happy. Rarely has anyone who has left adolescence behind passed with the appearance of being even contented. Of course, the face under such circumstances cannot be accepted as a perfect interpreter, but without doubt most of the individual passersby, if questioned, would admit that they are no more contented [5]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29815150_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
