He starts with an appeal to logic to figure out what the truth is, instead of the "pleasing and encouraging visions" which may cause ""a fallacious tendency of thought.... Depicting belief to be "of the nature of a habit ", Pierce rejects what he calls the method of tenacity, noting that numerous people lean toward satisfaction to truth and will maintain a strategic distance from uncertainty once they have settled upon a consoling belief; accordingly, periodic conviction is liable to coherent error. ... He notes, nonetheless, that government (and other social foundations) at last commands...

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Scientist only want the answer of certain experiments to be what they believe it should be which hides the whole truth. ... He explains " Since Crania .Americana is primarily a treatise on the inferior quality of Indian intellect, I note first of all that Morton's cited average of 82 .cubic inches for Indian skulls is incorrect. ... If money is a scientist's greatest factor in doing research and experiments then misconduct will almost always take place for the simple reason that nothing else is important to them. ...

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Now on a personal note I have denied all agreements with Darwin on his opinions on the descent of man, but I agree and find it easy to adopt his ideas with natural selection. ... This does not go for humans though, as Darwin wrote "Man can act only on external and visible characters; nature cares nothing for appearance, except in so far as they may be useful to any being" (Darwin 440). I find much truth in this. ...

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