Father Ronald Knox has published his articles from the Evening
Standard under the title of An Open Air Pulpit (Constable. Os.). The essay on " Helpfulness " is particularly good. " As a matter of brute fact," he says, " about half the trouble which is taken in this singular world is taken without hope of reward, of advancement or even, for the most part, of recognition." He adds that helpfulness was recently analysed in a psychological laboratory in Oregon, with the following results : Love of Interference 32 per cent., Pride of Workman. ship 25 per cent., Desire for Gratitude 11 per cent., Desire for Admiration 11 per cent., Self-Importance 10 per cent., Re- action from Suppressed Contempt 9 per cent., and genuine Altruism only 5 per cent. Father Knox, gives us many humbling and ennobling and amusing thoughts ; it is safe to say there is a jest and a jewel on every page.
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