This legislative paralysis, plus economic panic within country bewildering the country and bewildering uncertainties concerning the world outside—from the beginnings of Hitler's rise and the great question mark of the Soviet Union to the growth of Japanese power and competition with the West—give psychological soundness to the famous words in Roosevelt's inauguration address : ". . . the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Birth is the individual's first step toward gaining independence, the first stage in the process of psychological weaning that continues through adolescence. It is no"' up to him to breathe for himself and to make sucking movements that will appease his hunger. He is still very dependent on his mother, yet not as directly and completely as before. To tnis bewildering situation he responds in a hit-and-miss way. By trying out his repertory of responses he happens on some that are useful to him.
Records reveal that 50,000 persons could crowd into these balconies to witness important spectacles, and these shows were indeed of bewildering variety and moral range, from canonizations and religious dramas through festivals and political demonstrations to buD-fights and horse races. The square was first dedicated in 1620 with a freat religious ceremony, and religion raised its head later in ugliest form, jr here occurred many sadistic autos-da-fe.
This legislative paralysis, plus economic panic within country bewildering the country and bewildering uncertainties concerning the world outside—from the beginnings of Hitler's rise and the great question mark of the Soviet Union to the growth of Japanese power and competition with the West—give psychological soundness to the famous words in Roosevelt's inauguration address : ". . . the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."