Marks of a Clear Mind - Classic Reprint Author:Albert Edward Wiggam Excerpt from Marks of a Clear Mind — It is not the purpose of this book merely to explode a series of popular fallacies. It is written with the hope that it may induce a larger number of people to do their thinking by the analytical methods of science. I could have chosen hundreds of other popular fallacies to explode, but I have confined myself ... more »largely to wrong popular beliefs about psychology and biology, simply because wrong beliefs in these fields, especially in our day, do incalculable damage.
I have addressed the book to the man in the street, Mr. Manstreet, as a convenient auditor. The most amazing and discouraging thing to me about modern life is that Mr. Manstreet, with his crude notions of science and his lack of the mental techniques for approaching life problems in a scientific way, is not, as you might suppose, the street-corner philosopher, the man who has never been to college and the poorly educated person generally.
I find Mr. Manstreet everywhere I go. He is the man who has somehow never gained the scientific attitude and who must therefore remain all his life among the half-educated. Many lawyers, doctors, preachers, business men, editors, writers, poets, artists, college professors, as well as traveling salesmen, skilled mechanics and small business men, seem to have their heads about equally full of strange notions of nature, uncritical beliefs which if true would mean that all the science they are daily using, and by which, they are getting rich - at least richer than human beings ever were before - can not be true.
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