In Shenmu County, Shensi Province in the north-western part of China, a medical school for barefoot doctors offers a two year programme.

The definition of ambiversion grows then directly out of the two preceding [extroversion and introversion] and is to be stated as a condition of development in which attention is controlled by either objective or subjective conditions of attention and in which the content of the subjective conditions is so varied as to make possible more or less prolonged periods of either extroversion or introversion.

Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

And the passion that held Strickland was a passion to create beauty. It gave him no peace. It urged him hither and thither.