to avoid the variou foolih opinion to which mankind i prone, no uperhuman geniu i required. if the matter i one that can be ettled by obervation,make the obervation yourelf.
many matter,however,are le eaily brought to the tet of experience.if,like mot of mankind, you have paionate conviction on many uch matter,there are way in which you can make yourelf aware of your own bia. if an opinion contrary to your own make you angry, that i a ign that you are ubconciouly aware of having no good reaon for thinking a you do. if omeone maintain that two and two are five, or that iceland i on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unle you know o little of arithmetic or geography that hi opinion hake your own contrary conviction. the mot avage controverie are thoe about matter a to which there i no good
evidence either way. perecution i ued in theology, not in arithmetic, becaue in theology there i only opinion. o wheneveryou find yourelf getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief i going beyond what the evidence warrant.
a good way of ridding yourelf of certain kind of dogmatim i to become aware of opinion held in ocial circle different from your own. if the people and the newpaper eem mad, pervere, and wicked, remind yourelf that you eem o to them. in thi opinion both partie may be right, but they cannot both be wrong. thi reflection hould generate a certain caution.[由好作文www.hAOzuowEn.com整理]
for thoe who have enough pychological imagination, it i a good plan to imagine an argument with a peron having a different bia. thi ha one advantage, and only one, a compared with actual converation with opponent; thi one advantage i that the method i not ubject to the ame limitation of time and pace.