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Smutek to uczucie, jak gdyby się tonęło, jak gdyby grzebano cię w ziemi.
I cannot quite take that view. I think that any virtue that you may believe in should be one that you can support from the very first without appealing to anything that you do not yourself believe. Education will have to be quite enormously transformed if
that view is accepted. I believe that it is at present illegal in every country of the world except Russia to teach children in the kind of way which skilled medical practitioners
would consider the best for their mental health. That is one point upon which irrational convictions as generally held interfere, and there are a number of ways in which it is at present impossible to educate rationally without coming up against the authorities. The
authorities are organized upon a basis of certain irrational dogmas, and those dogmas are not all of them theological. Some are theological, and some are of other sorts; but the
rational habit of mind is a very rare one.
I think that we ought to do all that we can to bring before the world the importance of the attitude that we are not going to believe a thing unless there is some reason to think that it is true. I know that that is thought to be very shocking. It is supposed that there are a lot of things that you ought to believe because good people believe them, and not because
there is any reason for them. I do not take that view. I think anything that is worth
believing must have some positive ground in its favor.
There are always new grounds being alleged in favor of irrationality; perpetually new
things come up. Take, for example, the kind of use that has been made by some people of
psycho-analysis. If you read the works of the founder of psycho-analysis, you find an
entirely rationalist attitude; but if you listen to some of the minor disciples you will
imagine that this doctrine has swept away the idea that opinions can be based upon
reason at all. That, of course, is not the truth of it. You will always find a number of
clever people engaged in perversions of anything that comes up -- engaged in saying that
the latest results of science prove that the people who always opposed science are after all in the right. That is where there is always humbug. Anybody who tells you that the latest results of science prove something, he himself not being a scientist, you may be pretty
sure is talking nonsense.