Excerpt from Interference and Adaptability: An Experimental Study of Their Relation Lation With Special Reference to Individual Differences<br><br>This is also true of smaller groupings of individuals. Giddings10 makes a classification of religions on the basis of their tendency to break away from hidebound custom. Conversion is a distinct type of changed reaction to life and often presents marked interference. In every condition of life there are interferences of the old situation and adaptability to the new. A strange citizen in a new country, a boy from the farm in the city, the freshman in the college, and the institutional lad on the streets are all familiar examples. A perfect adaptability to all situations is the result of long and varied experi ence. Adaptations are thus a large part of the activity of any ex panding organism.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.