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Clear thinking continued
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume ... It is true, in the course of argument as in Mechanics, that 'nothing is stronger than its weakest part,' and consequently a chain which has one faulty link will break; but though the number of sound links adds nothing to the strength of the chain, it adds much to the chance of the faulty one's escaping observation. ...
We are creatures of habit. The oftener we act or think in a certain way, the more mechanical and the easier it becomes to go on acting and thinking in the same way, and the more difficult, and therefore the more distasteful, it becomes to deviate from our established routine.
Thought for today
Attempts to disturb these prejudices are bound to meet with strong resistance; so many of us dislike not only change, but also being forced to think at all.
RW Jepson, Clear Thinking. An Elimentary Course of preparation for Citizenship, 1936
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