Moral Sanitation. By Ernest R. Groves, Professor of Sociology, New Hampshire State College, Durham,  N. H. Association Press, New York, 1916, pp.  viii + 128.

This little book belongs to a class of literature which is constantly becoming more abundant and which emphasizes a very healthy attitude on the part of the people who read them, namely a desire for some real knowledge about themselves which will be helpful in the practical problems of living.

Professor Groves hardly claims to have written a treatise on Moral Sanitation. His book is more of a running commentary or a collection of thoughts, designated as chapter headings, tied together by the comments of a man who has read widely and thought much over the problems of human conduct and believes profoundly that in a scientific study of man's behavior ought to be found the principles upon which efficient living must be based and that these principles are to find their way into the highways and byways of social life, into the factory and be applied by the workman at his task, into the family and be applied by the parents in the education of their children, into the church and provide the reasons for its moral precepts, in fact into every place where man's activities carry him. Professor Groves's attitude towards conduct is wholesome and constructive. He believes that a man is entitled to the privilege of wholesome work in which he finds 2self expression and that he is entitled to the boon of happiness and that the really great social problems that confront us are perhaps the very ones of providing a means to these ends.

Professor Groves, like many another broad-minded man, has come to believe that the principles worked out by Freud and embodied in the methods of psychoanalysis can no longer be neglected by the moral teacher who desires to do the best that can be done, that the psychoanalytic principles, in other words, throw a light upon the springs of human conduct, which it is invaluable to know about if we are to improve our ways of living.

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