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accept appeal argu argument by analogy attitude audience Austrian Empire authority bad-tempered believe Bolsheviks capital punishment conclusion confident manner controversial course criminal crooked thinking danger Dealt defending definition device discussion dishonest dispute diversion effect emotional meaning emotionally toned words example extreme garroting give ground habits of thought hair hearers heredity human illustration inconsequent argument instinct intelligent irrelevant objection kind large number lead logical matter ment mental merely method mind murderous nation natural selection non-Euclidean geometries obscure obvious one's opponent opinions opponent's ourselves passage person piece of crooked political position practical prejudices prestige problems proposition prove psychology question reasonable red-haired Rolls-Royce Russia scientific scientific methods simply social socialist speaker special pleading speech statement straight thinking tabloid thinking tend theory theory of relativity things thought habits tion tional true truth trying unconscious mind undistributed middle vagueness