A Dictionary of Human Behavior: Our Minds and Our Motives

At last someone had the intelligence, the patience and the sagacity to gather to gather the scattered facts that explain our mind motives into one compact and profitable volume. Mr. Hugon’s book is an alphabetical guide to human motives, a dictionary of all terms in use that refer to human behaviuor or thought. It does not lean to any field of explanation; impartially and clearly the definitions are given according to psychology or philosophy, theosophy or science. An amazing amount of hitherto loosely presented, sometimes unavailable, facts are covered in one unified scheme. The author says: “To Know oneself has ever been the criterion of wisdom; to know others is the criterion of utility. There are few unmixed motives in a complex civilization; each individual has the qualities of his faults and the faults of his qualities. To weigh oneself and others in the balance, a pastime to the idle, is a necessity to thousands whose success depends on such understanding.” This book is the result of that necessity. Moreover, all of his valuable and useful material is arranged so as to be instantly available.