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SELF-MEASUREMENT*

TO MEASURE anything accurately requires a scale. For grain we have pecks and bushels; for cloth, inches and yards; for land, feet and acres; for stocks, bonds, and all commodities, dollars and cents. If we are to measure ourselves we must have a scale which shall apply to human nature with something of the definiteness with which bushels apply to wheat, yards to cloth, acres to land, and dollars to stocks and bonds.

Such a scale is offered here. The principle of its construction is clear and simple. In the centre are placed ten terms in capital letters, representing the ten fundamental relations in which a man stands. The more simple and elemental are placed first; the more complex and comprehensive last. Let us see whether these ten relations are wisely selected, for if they are not, our whole scale is worthless. Is there anything there that is not of fundamental importance? Is there anything of fundamental importance that is not there?

*From Hyde's "Self-Measurement," copyrighted and published in full by B. W. Huebsch, New York City.

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First is physique, our body with its constitution, appetites, and capacities. Next is work of hand and brain. Third is property, the produce of labor. Fourth comes pleasure, and the question how much enjoyment, and of what quality, one gets or fails to get out of life. Fifth stands science, the world of knowledge. Sixth is art, and the question whether a man adds to or detracts from the harmony and beauty of the world. Seventh is the family, profoundly fundamental for weal or woe. Eighth is society, and our relations to our fellowmen. Ninth is the State, with its political duties and obligations. Tenth is religion, the reverent recognition of the Spirit present in all the other relations, which sums up one's comprehensive attitude in life.

If we are agreed on the ten terms in our central line, we are ready to consider the vertical columns. Each of these ten relations is capable of either fulfilment or violation. Fulfilment is represented by the upper, violation by the lower half of the column. Furthermore, both fulfilment and violation are capable of degrees. These degrees in each direction can be reduced to three: receptive, productive, and creative, above; and defective, perversive, and destructive, below.

Receptive means that one responds to the conventional requirements of the relation suffi

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