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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    he is drawn into a whirlwind of surrounding impulses and ideas. This is a fact, and it is in great catastrophes, during strikes, revo- lutions, and warfare, that this moral stupidity is apparent. Egoism is displayed in its most hideous form, sometimes strangely mixed with the spirit of sacrifice, and one begins to doubt the possibility of social progress. But if man is thus influenced and suffers the con- tagion of example, it is by virtue of his sug- gestibility, of his credulity; therein is re- vealed his unfitness to judge for himself, to see his path clearly, and to point it out to others. He is lacking in moral education. If the action exerted upon the mind of a person, treated separately, by the spoken word, were limited to a single man, the benefit derived would be great enough to warrant one in pursuing the investigation; but it is en- couraging to think, much more so to affirm, that this influence does not stop there, that it spreads, and that by enlightening individ- uals, isolated or collected in small groups, one may hope to influence the mentality of crowds. Like the grain of wheat planted in the [13]