[378] certainly find out that he or she has a tendency towards greed or towards waste--you can do that-- that he or she is able to perceive quickly new changes on the street or in the cooking which ordinarily are not so easily observed. All these things you can find, and they can fill a whole book, if you want, and then you have the person, and you decide, on the basis of this test, you want to marry her or him or not. Now this is the absurdity which in this very radical case shows how absurd these methods are if they are observed for more than realms of possible abstraction from the totality of the personality^a. There they CAN be used. If they are used for the valuation of the personality AS A WHOLE, then they are absurd and can never produce

a life relationship. Here you have methods which produce objectivation^b, which consider man as an objective thing. It is very interesting and perhaps not too well known to you because you did not have much experience about it, but the Europe had [it] with the dictators, that even a dictator of such an uneducated past like Hitler, was an excellent psychologist from the point of view of test psychology^c. In his Mein Kampf, which is his basic book, he developed the psychology of mass guidance, and insofar as you can abstract from man, in terms of mass society (to which

I come immediately), all those elements in which his freedom of decision is involved, just as far as you can do this you have the most powerful tool a dictator can have, much more powerful than storm troopers or armies, namely the guidance of a whole nation in[to] those realms in which the individual resistance doesn't exist, in which you can calculate the reactions by test experiments.