Mind and heredity / by Vernon L. Kellogg.

  • Vernon Lyman Kellogg
Date:
1923
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    SOCIETAL ORGANIZATION 81 impressive illustration before it, of the re- results of a vigorous and wholesale attempt to put into effect the logical interpretation as to practise of the slogan, equality of men. At the same time that an important member of the present American govern¬ ment issues a vigorously worded little book on American Individualism whose text is the slogan, equality of opportunity for men, we still hear, although ever more faintly, the shouting of the old slogan, equality of all men, from the present Russian government. We have seen clearly in Russia the results of a deliberate and forced policy of non-vocational guidance, of an attempt to act on the assumption of the reality of the equality of all men, of a disregard of the natural phenomenon of kinds of mind. Every man in Russia was as¬ sumed to be the potential equal of any other man; any man can do or be, with similar opportunity, what any other man can do or be. I have already referred to my opportuni¬ ty of a little more than a year ago to see per¬ sonally some of the results of this attempt in Russia to act on these assumptions, and to talk with some of the men responsible for the attempt. I had an especially interesting talk with Kalinin, the peasant president of