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<v Speaker 1>Chapter seven of The American Credo by H. L. Mankin

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<v Speaker 1>and George gen Nathan. This LibriVox recording is in the

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<v Speaker 1>public domain. No doubt we should apologize for writing even

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<v Speaker 1>so so long a preface to so succinct a book.

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<v Speaker 1>The one excuse we can think of is that, having

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<v Speaker 1>read it, one need not read the book. That book,

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<v Speaker 1>as we have said, may strike the superficial as jocular,

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<v Speaker 1>but an actual fact, it is a very serious and

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<v Speaker 1>even profound composition, not addressed to the casual reader, but

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<v Speaker 1>to the scholar. Its preparation involves a great diligence, and

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<v Speaker 1>its study is not to be undertaken lightly. What the

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<v Speaker 1>psychologist will find to admire in it, however, is not

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<v Speaker 1>its learning and painstaking, its laborious eredition, but its compression.

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<v Speaker 1>It establishes, we believe, a new and clearer method for

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<v Speaker 1>a science long run to trigidity and flatulence. Perhaps it

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<v Speaker 1>may even be said to set up an entirely new science,

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<v Speaker 1>to wit, that of descriptive sociological psychology. We believe that

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<v Speaker 1>this fields will attract many men of inquiring mind hereafter

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<v Speaker 1>and yield a valuable crop of important facts. The experimental

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<v Speaker 1>method intrinsically so sound and useful, has been much abused

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<v Speaker 1>by orthodox psychologists. It inevitably leads them into a trackless

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<v Speaker 1>maze of meaningless tables and diagrams. They keep their eyes

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<v Speaker 1>so resolutely upon the intellectual process that they pay no

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<v Speaker 1>heed to the primary intellectual materials. Nevertheless, it must be

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<v Speaker 1>obvious that the conclusions that a man comes to, the

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<v Speaker 1>emotions that he and the crazes that sway him are

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<v Speaker 1>of much less significance than the fundamental assumptions upon which

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<v Speaker 1>they are all based. There has been, indeed, some discussion

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<v Speaker 1>of those fundamental assumptions of late. We have heard, for example,

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<v Speaker 1>many acute discourses upon the effects produced upon the whole

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<v Speaker 1>thinking of the German people, peasants and professors alike by

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<v Speaker 1>the underlying German assumption that the late Kaiser was anointed

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<v Speaker 1>of God and hence above all ordinary human responsibility. We

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<v Speaker 1>have heard talk too of the curious Irish axiom that

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<v Speaker 1>there is a mysterious something in the nature of things

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<v Speaker 1>giving the Irish people an indefeasible right to govern Ireland

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<v Speaker 1>as they please, regardless of the safety of their next

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<v Speaker 1>door neighbors. And we have heard many outlandish principles of

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<v Speaker 1>the same sort from political theorists e g. Regarding the

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<v Speaker 1>inalienable right of democracy to prevail over all other forms

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<v Speaker 1>of government, and the inalienable right of all national groups,

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<v Speaker 1>however small, to self determination. Well, here is an attempt

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<v Speaker 1>to assemble, in convenient form, without comment or interpretation, some

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<v Speaker 1>of the fundamental beliefs of the largest body of human

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<v Speaker 1>beings now under one flag in Christendom. It is but

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<v Speaker 1>a beginning. The field is barely platted. It must be

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<v Speaker 1>explored to the last furlong, and all its fantastic and

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<v Speaker 1>fascinating treasures unearthed and examined, before ever there can be

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<v Speaker 1>any accurate understanding of the mind of the American people.

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<v Speaker 1>George Gene Nathan, H. L. Mankin, New York, nineteen twenty.

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<v Speaker 1>End of chapter seven read by Audriyann Prevost. End of

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<v Speaker 1>the American Credo by H. L. Mankin and George Jean

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<v Speaker 1>Nathan