Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — ACTION RESULT OF HABIT [ARTICLE]

ACTION RESULT OF HABIT

Man Is an* Instinctive Animal and Usually He Acts .First and Thinks Afterward. At least nine-tenths of all human action is the result purely and simply, of habit. Man is an instinctive animal in spite of the reasoning faculties that have been given to him and normally he acts first and thinks afterward. The child is conceived and born se that he may do things and that in doing them he may develop a j*ersonal will and an individual character. He could not even begin to form a character jvere it .not for that universal process of habit formation. Education itself is a habit. It could never have been developed without the mechanical operations of habit. This mechanical procedure economizes the two great essentials of education. The first is time and the second is energy. Ideal behavior, then, involves J**rfect balance and sanity es action. It demands moderation in all things, with every function exercisinx: with every other function. —Mother's Magazine.