August 19, 2003

• Intelligence Test

  
  

  From my August 31, 2002, entry quoting Dr. Maria Montessori on conciseness, simplicity, and objectivity:

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Above: Dr. Harrison Pope, Harvard professor of psychiatry, demonstrates the use of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale “block design” subtest.

  
  

  Another Harvard psychiatrist, Armand Nicholi, is in the news lately with his book The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life. 

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Pope	Nicholi
  Old Testament Logos	New Testament Logos

  
  

  For the meaning of the Old-Testament logos above, see the remarks of Plato on the immortality of the soul at

  
  

  Cut-the-Knot.org.

  
  

  For the meaning of the New-Testament logos above, see the remarks of R. P. Langlands at

  
  

  The Institute for Advanced Study.

  
  

  For the meaning of life, see

  
  

  The Gospel According to Jill St. John,

  
  

  

  
  

  whose birthday is today.

  
  

  “Some sources credit her with an I.Q. of 162.”
  
  

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