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Show HARD TO LOO ERROR'S GSI? I popuui knowledge, catalogued ' t; lar beliefs that are nottel;. "A child is ,nflue t" mother sees or thin, Jt - born; ft caused by what a J1' touches before her C k " in former times tl.e a ? i' of human life was mud. 5 now; fat people alway ,7 :' natured; mental aisorde : ' by overstudy; children of f" ins, though Of good Dir. ' growth of hair on , Mi; ! and chest Indicates L?! strength; the theory of." E; : plies that men are deso . apes." sceo ;1 This list of beliefs unb Is particularly interestin, V each of its items is , ve berer of the human minl !" these widely accepted error- ' cent origin; none of them the life of today; even the, ' .' of them, that concerning n, , ; of evolution, is of a consider, - -and all of them have been V t dieted by authority time J' 1 Fet they persist in vigor J" unimpaired, and there Is M 7 t any of them Is giving grw; the Impact of denial. ' : A belief once accepted by it ' ulation at large has more lives ! litter of kittens. The earnest".' cator of sound doctrine who at . ' to dislodge It undertake! ai 1 hopeless task. Nor does thu - ' that truth Is mocked. The n-simply, n-simply, often picturesquely, the exceptional circumstanced ' seem to support it are vivid,, 1 and remain in the memory,!' 1 growth of truth is likely toVi garment stitched with ifsnni; : New York Sun. |