| Show abnormality of groups grou P s can easily be turned into collective insanity by PROF E A DURTT university ot of chicago HE individual member of any ally class profession or religious group table no mattor matter how intelligent or conscientious lie he may bo be is seldom able to realize ilia errors and fallacies believed believe d in by liis ilia own group as aa a whole group abnormality sometimes beco becoming mim a case of collective insanity is a force so eo powerful that it cap impel people to believe in even destructive ideas and what is worse act upon them only by the assumption of group abnormality can we explain the periodic outbursts of fanaticism and militaristic frenzy which have worked uch buch havoc upon the flip human race it is by the consideration of this tin s phenomenon that wo we are arc able fully to appreciate tho the extraordinary achievement of tile tho scientific attitude in developing ilia cohabit ho habit of arri arriving at truth through the use of some tentative statement termed an hypothesis 11 an hypothesis represents presents ra what tile alie scientific guesses gue lea may be lie file truth and which ho employed its is a working attitude pending the rinal final re ulta of experiment and observation if demonstrated wrong tile the hypothesis po thesis is discarded for anew and better statement such ucal an all attitude tudo is directly opposite the view derived from theology which starts with faith in something considered eternally and un an changeably true and extends tills faith to include 1 every detail in th the scheme the scientific attitude is that of an agnostic 0 which does docs not mean nt atheist holst but rather the open mind habit of working by tent alivo ve statements has developed a true law of progress the open attitude which will even eventual tu al ly enable mankind moil lind to control many future conditions now regarded na ne yond human power |
