Capitolo 94
him a favorite among his/her companions, the a lot of fact that he is of this
or that party will have more effect on the other boys that the more anymore
logical and conclusive trains to reason that you/he/she can be conceived.
Then it is with the religious and the political differences in this and in each
other country. The opinions of every--or rather people's opinion in
general, for they are clearly there a lot of individual exceptions--it is formed
from understanding with those with whom in mind and their heart they have been in
friendly communication during their years of the infancy and youth. And also
in those cases where people change their religious opinions in adult age,
the explanation of the mystery will generally be found, not in to look for for
the _argument that has convinced them_, but for the _person that has conducted them_,
in the completion of the change. For such changes very often, and
perhaps is generally traced, to of the person or people which influence on
them, if you/he/she is attentively scrutinized, you/he/she would be found really not to consist in the
strength of the matters that they has offered, but in the magic power of a silent and
perhaps unconscious understanding. The way, therefore to convert people to ours
ideas and opinions are to do them as us or to love us, and then to avoid
disputing with them, but simply it allowed them to perceive that that our ideas and opinions
it is.
The notorious proverb, "Example is better than the precept", it is only another
form to express the power that predominates of understanding; for example
has that small influence omits as a comprehensive feeling in the till now
observer conducts him/it to imitate him/it. Then, example is better than the precept
he/she wants to only say that understanding it has more influence in the human heart that
reasoning.
_The Power of Understanding in Childhood_.
This principle, so powerful to every period of the life, it is to maximum his/her
in infancy. It is the origin, in a very great degree of the spirit of
imitation that forms so extraordinary a characteristic of the first years