COUPLE CHILD MENTAL GROWTH

Couple Child Mental Growth



Couple Child Mental Growth

This is an intriguing route from Chesterton's Orthodoxy. I presume chess playing philosophers are double-duty candidates for the asylum. Dennis? Bill V? Help me out here. You must admit that the two American players who ascended to the pinnacle of chess (Morphy and Fischer) do now speak well of the salutary effects of the Royal Game for one's mental stability.GKC: Let us begin, then, with the mad-house; from this evil and fantastic inn let us set forth on our intellectual journey. Now, if we are to glance at the beliefs of sanity, the first thing to do in the issue is to blot out one large-scale and widespread mistake. There is a notion free everywhere that fantasy, especially mystical fantasy, is unsafe to man's mental balance. Poets are routinely spoken of as psychologically unreliable; and generally there is a vague association between wreathing laurels in your hair and attaching straws in it. Facts and annals utterly contradict this view. Most of the very great poets have been not only sane, but exceedingly business-like; and if Shakespeare ever actually held equines, it was because he was much the safest man to contain them. Imagination does not type insanity. Exactly what does type insanity is reason. Poets do not proceed mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians proceed angry, and cashiers; but creative persons very seldom. Aim not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking reasoning:

I only state that this hazard does lie in reasoning, not in imagination. Artistic paternity is as healthy as personal paternity. Moreover, it is worthy of comment that when a poet really was morbid it was routinely because he had some feeble location of rationality on his brain. Poe, for example, actually was morbid; not because he was ...