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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    reason, one reverses this pessimistic sentence pronounced on the human mind. We find among the simplest people, poorly brought up, even among the deranged, a fund of logic and intelligence about things moral. One then perceives that in the witty but disdainful judgments of so many writers there is an aristocratic presumption, and when one sees how few of these great think- ers know how to make their principles and their conduct agree, one is smitten with re- spect for the simple-minded as being near the truth. After saying that man is stupid and foolish, after having almost felt in one's soul the beginning of a decided aversion towards this being, so badly made, one comes to like him better all the time, and one ends by say- ing: How intelligent and good we find him when we scratch the surface, when we bring to light his inner personality, and when we help to free his logic from the fetters which bind him! It has often been observed that the psychol- ogy of crowds is not simply the sum of indi- vidual psychologies—that the mind of man is no longer the same when he is alone as when [12]