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The Story of the Mind

CHAPTER X
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These people are the social geniuses.

They seem to anticipate the discipline of social education.

They do not need to learn the lessons of the social environment.
Now, such persons undoubtedly represent a variation toward suggestibility of the most delicate and singular kind.

They surpass the teachers from whom they learn.

It is hard to say that they "learn to judge by the judgments of society." They so judge without seeming to learn, yet they differ from the man whose eccentricities forbid him to learn through the discipline of society.


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