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Fanatics - and How to Know Them
Krutch, Joseph Wood | February 27, 1937 issue

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Superstition is said to be the religion of someone else, license a liberty which is not approved, and sentimentality only the indulgence in an emotion which is not shared. Indeed, some would doubtless go even far enough in this direction to add that definitions like these are realistic if one accepts them and cynical if one does not. Possibly wisdom can get farther than this, and the author is not at the moment very much concerned with stinginess and thrift or with superstition and religion. Like a great many other people he is, however, very much aware just now of something which some of us call fanaticism. Perhaps no line can be drawn to indicate where rational conviction ends and fanaticism begins.

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FANATICISM; RADICALISM; ATTITUDE (Psychology); SOCIOLOGY; SOCIAL psychology; BELIEF & doubt
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