“We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.”

The Mind in the Making : The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform (1921)

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American historian 1863–1936

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