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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    19/360 (page 7)
    a complete and regular circle by putting dominoes with the same numbers end to end. This work is possible only when the table is clear or when those already placed by the hands of others are in position. Now, from the first years of our existence, appointed dominoes are put into our game in an appar- ent order which is often nothing but disorder. Is it surprising that we do not succeed in com- pleting our circle, in thinking logically? These fixed counters, which make the work of thinking so difficult, are preconceived ideas, dogmas of all sorts, settled convictions, solidified, in a word, and obtruded upon us by those with whom we live—our relatives, so well-meaning but often so clumsy, friends whom we have chosen unwisely, the class in which we live, and socially all the world, to whose contagion we unwittingly lay ourselves open. As sheep of Panurge, we copy our neigh- bours when it is futile or even bad to do so; we respect traditions in all departments without submitting them, for an instant, to criticism and reason. Thinking appears to be very tiresome. [7]