Self-control and how to secure it = (L'éducation de soi-même) / by Paul Dubois ; Authorized translation by Harry Hutcheson Boyd.

  • Paul Charles Dubois
Date:
1909
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Credit: Self-control and how to secure it = (L'éducation de soi-même) / by Paul Dubois ; Authorized translation by Harry Hutcheson Boyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    runner of moral decay. It is to the physician that these disinherited, these degenerates apply; for them the world has sympathy only when their suffering is at its height. They are closer to us than you imagine, you who judge others severely and take pride in your own mental poise; remember that no man is a hero either to his physician or to his valet, or to those who know his private life. Each one of us has some defect due to heredity. Education itself plays an immense part in forming these pathological mental conditions; it spoils the judgment of those who call themselves normal and who imagine themselves in a position to cast a look of contemptuous pity upon their less fortunate brethren. In the Carnavalet Museum in Paris is an autograph of Alexandre Dumas the Younger that is worth a whole treatise on philosophy. It says:' ' How does it happen that while chil- dren are so intelligent, men are so stupid. The witty author adds: Education must be responsible for it. Yes, education is chiefly to blame; no other hypothesis is possible. It is indeed to various educational influences, in [5]