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Excerpt from A Study of American Intelligence Two extraordinarily important tasks confront our nation: the protection and improvement of the moral, mental and physical quality of its people and the re-shaping of its industrial system so that it shall promote justice and encourage creative and productive workmanship. I have been asked to write this Foreword because of my official connection, as chief of the Division of Psychology, Office of the Surgeon General of the Army, with psychological examining during the war, but I have consented to write it because of my intense interest in the practical problems of immigration and my conviction that the psychological data obtained in the army have important bearing on some of them. When in April, 1917, I visited Canada to learn what use our neighbors were making of psychological principles and methods in their military activities, I found Mr. Carl C. Brigham attached as psychologist to the Military Hospitals Commission. With him as my guide, I spent several hours in interviewing military and civil officers and in discussing our mutual problems and needs. The valuable information which Mr. Brigham helped me to secure and his advice contributed substantially to the report which I later presented to my professional colleagues at home, and to representatives of the United States army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.