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Annual Report of Program Activities (NIMH: 1959)

National Institutes of Health, 1959, Vol. 1: National Institute of Mental Health Annual Report of Program Activities Annual Report of the Basic Research Program, NIMH-NINDB January 1 to December 31, 1959 INTRODUCTION Ideals pass into great historic forces by embodying themselves in institutions. (Hastings Rashdall, 1895) "The safeguards of civilization and the purposes of Civilized man are intimately dependent upon ideals that have become embodied in institutions. Parliamentary rule, trial by jury, English Common Law, the Federal Constitution, and many agencies of our Government (including the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the National Institutes of Health) are bold and effective institutional expressions of ideals. Behavior is the outward expression of internal values. Ideals contribute to the improvement of internal values. The internalization: of an ideal is tremendously accelerated by social consensus. This may take the form of an institutional "tradition," or an ideal may become a social convention, an "institution" in its own right. Ideals may become “unwritten law." In this form they are more powerful than any statutory regulation. Most social behavior is

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