Superstition in All Ages 25 – Knoop · Verses Across
Freethought · Atheism
Superstition in All Ages 25XXXIII.—Origin of Prejudices
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Freethought · Atheism
Superstition in All Ages 25
XXXIII.—Origin of Prejudices
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The brain of man is, especially in infancy, like a soft wax, ready to receive all the impressions we wish to make on it; education furnishes nearly all his opinions, at a period when he is incapable of judging for himself. We believe that the ideas, true or false, which at a tender age were forced into our heads, were received from nature at our birth; and this persuasion is one of the greatest sources of our errors.
