BRAIN TESTS - Shaftesbury, 1928 MENTAL CAPACITY LEARNING THOUGHT RACISM EUGENICS

BRAIN TESTS: A NEW SYSTEM TO DETERMINE THE PLACE OF EVERY HUMAN BEING IN THE SCALE OF CIVILIZATION   Book Details + Condition: Ralston University Press (Meriden, CT). Early reprint edition, 1928 (the first being in 1927). Hardcover. Very scarce. Measures 9.75" x 7". 408 pages. In very good condition, with firm binding; interior is clean and free of markings. An unusual volume detailing "a study in practical psychology which takes minds that are wrong and makes them right". Chapters include: Thinking Faculties; Clearing the Brain; Wonders of the Brain; Insanity and Crime; Protecting the Future; Order; The Universal Mind; and more. Written by the founder of the health and utopian movement Ralstonism, Edmund Shaftesbury [pseudonym of Webster Edgerly]. Ralstonism was a social cult movement in the 19th century, and the brainchild of Edgerly (1852–1926). Ralstonism began as the Ralston Health Club, which published Edgerly's writings. He offered pseudo-scientific advice on everything from s