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A Short Introduction to the History of Stupidity (1932) is a book on stupidity by Walter B. Pitkin.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

I. MOROLOGY

Congressional Record, ad lib.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Charles Mackay. London. 1841.

Credulities Past and Present. William Jones. London. 1880.

Humbugs of New York. Davtd Reese. Boston. 1838.

Epidemic Delusions. F. R. Marvin. New York. 1874.

Curiosities of History. John Timbs. London. 1862.

Fads and Fallacies. Joshua Brookes. London. 1929.

L’Homme Stupide. Charles Richet. New York. 1925.

Mysteries and Secrets of Magic. C. J. S. Thompson. Philadelphia. 1928.

Mysteries of History. C. /. S. Thompson. London. 1928.

Kentucky Superstitions. D. L. Thomas. 1920.

Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans. Edwin Miller Fogel. 1915.

The Unhappy Effects of Enthusiasm and Superstition. John

Evans.

Superstition of the Churches, Ancient and Modern. W. R. Sun- man. Manchester. 1874.

The Golden Bough. James Frazer. New York. 1915.

Psyche’s Task. James Frazer. New York. 1913.

The Origin of Man and His Superstitions. C. Read. Cambridge, England. 1920.

The Combat of Scientific Medicine and Superstition. James D. Morgan. Washington. 1907.

Blunders and Forgeries; Historical Essays. T. E. Bridgets. Lon- don. 1891.

Standardization of Error. Ftlhjdlmur Stcfonson. New York. 1927.

Aus der Geschichte der Menschlichen Dummheit. Max Philip Albert Kemmerich.

Popular Fallacies. A. S. E. Ackerman. Philadelphia. 1923.

Kultur-kuriosa. Max Kemmerich. Munich. 1923-26.

Fads, Frauds, and Physicians. T. Swann Harding. New York. 1930.

Bouvard et PicucHET. Gustave Flaubert. 1881.

Pseudo do xia Epidemica, or Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenets and Commonly Presumed Truths, Which Examined Proved but Vulgar and Common Errors. Sir Thomas Browne. 1646.

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A History of Some Scientific Blunders. George McCready Price. New York. 1930.

Foibles and Fallacies of Science. D. W. Hertng. New York. 1924. On the Ignorance of the Learned. An Essay. William Hazlitt.

The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men. An Essay. George Santayana. Office Boy’s Digest. B. A. Mtlbum.

Mrs. Grundy. Leo Markun. New York. 1930.

Medical Follies. Morris Fishbetn. New York. 1925.

Life Among the Lowbrows. Eleanor Wembrtdge. New York. 1931. Medicine, Magic and Religion. W. H. R. Rtvers. New York. 1924. The Mississippi Bubble. A Memoir of John Law. Adolphe Thiers. Mrs. Eddy, the Biography of a Virginal Mind. Edwtn F. Dakin. New York. 1930.

Hanna. Thomas Beer. New York. 1929.

French Profiles. Edmund Gosse. London. 1913.

In the Service of the King; the Story of My Life. Atmee Semple McPherson. New York. 1927.

Lenin. Valeria Marcu. New York. 1928.

Union Portraits. Gamaliel Bradford. New York. 1916.

Life of Francis Thompson. Everard Meynell. New York 1913. Dictionary of Music. Sir George Grove. London. 1890.

Masters IN MUSIC. Daniel Gregory Mason. Boston.

Life of Ludwig van Beethoven. Alexander Wheelock Thayer. New York. 1921.

In re Walt Whitman. R. M. Bucke. Philadelphia. 1893.

Life of Lord Curzon. Earl of Ronaldshay. London. 1928.

II BIOLOGY

Genetic Studies of Genius. Lewis Terman. 1926.

The Character of Races. Ellsworth Huntington. New York. 1925. Climate Through the Ages. C. E. P. Brooks. London. 1926. Klimaschwankungen und VOlkerwanderungen. E. Bruckner. Vienna. 1912.

Geography of Disease. Frank G. Clemow. Cambridge. 1903.

The Origin of Species. Charles Darwin.

The Descent of Man. Charles Darwin.

Riders of the Plague. James A. Tobey. New York. 1930.

Hookworm Infection in Foreign Countries. Publication No. 6. 1911. Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for Eradication of Hookworm Disease.

Applied Eugenics. Popenoe and Johnson. New York. 1918.

Mankind at the Crossroads. E. M. East. New York. 1924.

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The Trend of the Race. Samuel J. Holmes. New York. 1921. Heredity and Human Affairs. E. M. East. New York. 1927. Sociologie. Georg Stmmel. Berlin. 1902.

Man’s Own Show: Civilization. George A. Dorsey. New York. 1931.

III. PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology and Ethnology. W. H. R. Rivers. London. 1926. Psychology of Character. A. A. Roback. New York. 1927. Psychology of Religious Mysticism. J. H. Leuba. London. 1925. Social Psychology. Floyd Allport. New York. 1924.

Gestalt Psychology. Wolfgang Kohler. New York. 1929.

Art of Thought. Graham Wallas. New York. 1926.

Psychology of Conviction. Joseph Jastrow. Boston. 1918.

Adult Learning. E. L. Thorndike. New York. 1928.

Psychology of Education. E L. Thorndike. New York. 1911.

Art of Straight Thinking. Edwin Leavitt Clarke. New York. 1929. The Marks of an Educated Man. Albert Edward Wiggam. Indian- apolis. 1930.

Mental Traits OF Sex. Helen Thompson Woolley. Chicago. 1903. Individuality. E. L. Thorndike. Boston. 1911.

Influence of Sex in Determining Human Disease Potentiality. George Draper.

Human Behavior. Stewart Paton. New York. 1921.

Clinical Psychiatry. Allan Ross Dtefendorf. New York.

Emotions of Normal People. William M. Marston. New York. 1929. Temperament and Race. Porteus and Babcock. Boston. 1926. Character and Temperament. Joseph Jastrow. New York. 1915. Mental Adjustments. Frederick L. Wells. New York. 1917. Behaviorism. John B. Watson. New York. 1925.

The Psychology of Functional Neuroses. H. L. H ollmgworth. New York. 1920.

The Behavior of Crowds. Everett Dean Martin. New York 1920. The Human Mind. Karl Menntnger. New York 1930.

Individual Differences in the Intelligence of School Children.

Mary Wentworth. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1926.

The Measurement of Emotion. W. W. Smith. London. 1920. 5 sychologie Politique du Peuple Anglais. E. Boutmy.

The Glands Regulating Personality. Louts Berman. New York. 1921.

k Study of British Genius. Havelock Ellis. London. 1904.

Decent Studies in Sex Differences. Edited by C. N. Allen. Columbia University.

‘sychologische Forschungen. Lewin and Zeigarnik. 1927.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Selected Papers on Philosophy. William James. New York. Every- man Edition.

Varieties of Religious Experience. William James. New York. 1902. Physiological Foundations of Behavior. Charles M. Child. New York. 1924.

Foundations of Character. A. F. Shand.

Autonomic Functions and the Personality. E. J. Kempf. New York. 1921.

Forms and Functions of the Central Nervous System. Ttlney and Riley. New York. 1921.

Mental Abnormality and Deficiency. Sidney L. and Luella Cole Pressey. New York. 1926.

The Unstable Child. Florence Mateer. New York. 1924. Controlled Power. Arthur Holmes. New York. 1924.

Ethics and Some Modern World Problems. William McDougall. New York. 1924.

This Human Nature. Charles Duff. New York. 1930-1931.

The New Realism. By Six Realists. New York. 1912.

Die Zeitschrift f. d. Gesammte Neuro logie u. Psychiatrie. Vol. 41. 1918.

Art of Thinking. Abbe Dimnet. New York. 1928.

Genius and Disaster. Jeannette Marks. New York. 1925 Tobacco and Physical Efficiency. Schmmpf-Pierron.

IV. HISTORY

The Odyssey. Book ix.

Confucius : Analects.

Mencius: Translation in Legge’s “Chinese Classics," Vol. ii, 1875. Encyclopaedia Britannica, xiii Edition.

Der Untergang des Abendlandes. Oswald Spengler. 1922. Eng. Tr. New York 1928-1932.

World Politics in Modern Civilization. Harry Elmer Barnes. New York. 1930.

The Conquest of Civilization. James Henry Breasted. 1926.

The Blood of the Nation. David Starr Jordan. Boston. 1910.

The Human Harvest. David Starr Jordan. Boston. 1907.

War and the Breed. David Starr Jordan. Boston. 1915.

Rationalism in Europe. W. E. H. Lecky.

Why Rome Fell. Edward Lucas White. New York. 1927.

Greek Leaders. Leslie White Hopkinson. New York. 1918.

The Campaign of 1812 and the Retreat from Moscow. Hilaire Belloc. New York. 1912.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Napoleon I. A Biography. Auguste Fournier. New York. 1903.

The Rise of American Civilization. Charles and Mary Beard. New York. 1929.

Struggle for American Independence. Sydney George Fisher. Phila- delphia. 1908.

The War in the Crimea. General Sir Edward Hamley. 189Q.

Letters of the Tsaritsa to the Tsar, 1914-1916.

The Fall of the Russian Empire. Edmund A. Walsh. Boston. 1928. Willy-Nicxy Correspondence. Edited by Herman Bernstein. New York. 1918.

Thirteen Years at the Russian Court. Pierre Gtlltard. London. 1921. Tragedy of Russia in Pacific Asia. Frederick McCormick. New York. 1907.

The History of Human Punishment. Harry Elmer Barnes. Boston. 1931.

The Twilight of Christianity. Harry Elmer Barnes. New York. 1931. Re-Shaping of the Far East. B. L. Putnam Weale.

The Spanish-American War. R. A. Alger. New York. 1901.

The Relations of the United States and Spain. F. E. Chadwick. New York. 1911.

The War with Spain. H. C. Lodge. New York. 1899.

The Martial Spirit. Walter Millis. New York. 1931.

Colossal Blunders of the War. William Seaver Woods. New York. 1930.

The Real War B. H. Liddell-Hart. London. 1930.

The Inside Story of the Peace Conference. E. J. Dillon. New York.

1920.

You Can’t Print That. George Seldes. New York. 1929.

The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener. Reginald Viscount Esher. London.

1921.

Genesis of the World War. Harry Elmer Barnes. New York. 1926. The World Crisis. 5 Volumes. Winston Churchill. New York. 1923- 1929.

Life of Lord Kitchener. George Arthur. London. 1920.

The If’s of History. Joseph Edgar Chamberlain.

Spanish Story of the Armada. J. A. Froude. New York. 1892.

V. LINGUISTICS

Die Innerliche Sprache. Ballet.

Language. Otto Jespersen. New York. 1922.

Sound and Symbol in Chinese. Bernard Kalgren. London. 1923. [547 ]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages. W. I. Bleek.

The Mulatto in the United States. E. B. Router. Boston. 1918. Brown America. Edwin R. Embree. New York. 1931.

VI. NATION

Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards. Salvador de Madariaga. Lon- don. 1928.

The Englishman. W. Macneile Dixon. London. 1931.

France, A Study in Nationality. Andre Siegfried. London. 1930. America Comes of Age. Andre Siegfried. New York. 1927.

Post-War Britain. Andri Siegfried. New York. 1924.

England’s Crisis. Andre Siegfried. New York. 1931.

An Interpretation of the Russian People. Leo Wiener.

The Soul of Spain. Havelock Ellis. London. 1908.

Europe. Hermann A. Key ser ling. New York. 1928.

GENERAL

The English Convict. Charles Goring. London. 1913.

Five Hundred Criminal Careers. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Glueck. New York. 1930.

Is America Safe for Democracy? William McDougall. New York. 1921.

The Kingdom of Evils. Southard and Jarrett. New York. 1922. Middletown. Robert and Helen Lynd. New York. 1929.

Marriage and Morals. Bertrand Russell. New York. 1929.

A Preface to Politics. Walter Lippmann. New York. 1913.

Number, the Language of Science. Tobias Dantzig. New York. 1931.

Popular History of American Invention. Waldemar Kaempfert. New York. 1924.

What About Advertising? Kenneth M. Goode and Harford Powell, Jr. New York. 1927.

The Stock Market Crash and After. Irving Fisher. New York. 1930.

History and Social Intelligence. Harry Elmer Barnet. New York. 1926.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Public Opinion in the Teaching or History. Bessie Pierce. New York. 1926.

Parents on Probation. Minam Van Waters. New York. 1917. Tolerance. Hendrik Willem Van Loon. New York. 1925.

History of Medicine. Fielding H. Garrison. 1921.

Health Building and Life Extension. Eugene Lyman Fisk. New York. 1923.

The Case of Frank L. Smith. Carroll H. Wooddy. Chicago. 1931. Strategy in Handling People. E. T. Webb and J. J. B. Morgan. Chicago. 1930.

Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature. W. F. Ogbum. New York. 1922.

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PERIODICALS

PERIODICALS

Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. 90, No. 25, pp. 2013- 2014.

“The Influence of Thermal Environment upon Basal Metabolism,” Francis G. and Cornelia G. Benedict. Nutritton Laboratory Experi- ments Reported to National Academy of Science. Session of April, 1924. “Some Effects on Man of High Temperature.” W. J. McConnell and R. (( R. Sayers. Government Bulletin No. 2584. Washington, D. C. “Tropical Neurasthenia.” American Journal of Medical Sciences. April, 1907.

"Standards of Child Welfare; A Report of the Children’s Bureau Con- ferences, May and June, 1919 ” Washington, D. C. Children’s Bureau Publication No. 60, pp. 238-48, 250.

“The Role of Fatigue m Malnutrition of Children.” Borden S. Veedcr.

Journal of American Medical Association, September 3, 1921.

United States Public Health Reports, April 29, 1921. Vol. 36, No. 17. “The Hookworm and Civilization.” Walter H. Page. World's Work. Vol. 24, No. 5, September, 1912.

Annual Report, 1928, Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases. “Traffic in Narcotic Drugs.” Special Report. U. S. Treasury Department.

1919. Washington, D. C.

White House Conference Reports. 1930-1931.

Bratn, Vol. 9, p. 488, fi. Article by Fere.

“Dreams as a Cause of Symptoms," Waterman. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Vol. 5, p. 196.

Book’s Studies of Language Indiana University. Bulletin of Extension Division. Vol. 4, p. 100.

Burt’s Tests of Language. Journal of Educational Research. Vol. 4, p.

Boston Evening American, July 13, 1931.

“African Folk." Hans Coudenhove. Atlantic Monthly. February, 1922.

“The Superiority of the Mulatto.” E. B. Reuter. American Journal of Sociology. Vol. XXIII, 1918.

Studies of “Cortical Blindness,” conducted by Gelb and Goldstein, and commented on by Koehler. Die Zeitschrift f. d. gesamte Neurologie u. Psychiatne.

“The Autonomic Functions and the Personality." Dr. Edward J. Kempf. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Senes, No. 28, 1918. p. 115.

“Idiot Children." Edgar A. Doll and Cecilia G. Aldrich. Science, Sep- tember, 1931.

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PERIODICALS

“Mr*. Eddy’s Right-Hand Man." Ernest Sutherland Bates. Harper’s Magazine. February, 1931.

“The End of a Literary Mystery." Frederick P. Hill, Jr. American Mer- cury. Vol. 1, p. 471, S.

“Alias Walt Whitman.” Harvey O’Higgins. Harper’s Magazine. Vol. 158, pp. 698-707. May, 1929.

“The Limitations of the Expert.” Harold J. Laski. Harper’s Magazine, December, 1930.

Experiments in Recall, conducted by Lewin and Zeigamik. Psycholo- gtsche Forschungen. Vol. IX, 1927.

“Views of a Layman on Bolshevism.” Alonzo E. Taylor. Saturday Evening Post. January 3, 1920.

"The Chaos of Modern Marriage.” Beatrice Hinkle. Harper’s Magazine. December, 1925.

“Physical Attractiveness and Repulsiveness." F. A. C. Perrin. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Vol. IV, p. 203.

“Is the Rating of Human Character Possible?” Harold Rugg. Journal of Educational Psychology. 1921. p. 37.

“Paderewski: the Paradox of Europe." E. M. House. Harper’s Maga- zine. December, 1925.

“Saint, Poet and Psychologist.” John Middleton Murry. Saturday Review of Literature. March 7, 1925.

“We Pay for the Smiths.” Carl R. Rogers and M. E. Rappaport. Survey September, 1931.

“Business Is Afraid of the Truth.” Alvin T. Simonds. Nation’s Business. April, 1931.

“Prophets Not Without Honor.” Edward Angly. Forum. May, 1931.

“Our Medieval Minds ” Thomas F. Read. Atlantic Monthly. August, 19 31.

Report upon the Physical Examination of Men of Military Age by Na- tional Service Medical Boards from November 1, 1917 to October 31, 1918. Vol. I. London. 1920.

“Hamstringing Our Teachers." Earl W. Anderson. Atlantic Monthly. March, 1930.

“Mental Hygiene and Teacher Training Institutions in the United States. A Survey." Charles Benson and Louise Alteneder. Mental Hygiene. April, 1931.

“Schools and the Shifting Home.” V. T. Thayer. Survey. September 1, 1930.

“Human Sterilization.” Father John A. Ryan. National Catholic Welfare Conference, Washington, D. C. A pamphlet.

“Birth Control.” Louis I. Dublin. Forum. November, 1931.

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INDEX

INDEX

PAG*

Author*

Of mediocre intelligence. -

Stupidity of egotiaae. _ -

Automobile induatry, American portion in ■ Aviation , Stupidity toward Wright

Backward children, Studiea of _

Baker, George F, the apeechlea*.

Affected by dreamt. ______

Attention leading to. _ _ _ _ _

Importance of in penonality ~ —

Need of between extra- and introveraion

Baltic Fleet, Blunder of _ _

Balzac on French peaaant _ _

Bank f allurea.

Stupidity of _________

Timidity of _ _

Bantu, General diacuaaion of

Barton, John W., on atandard of living _

Barton, Mr*. Pearl — _ -

Bate*, Erneat Sutherland, on Mary Baker

Bavarian, Biamarck on the — _

Bazin on French peaaant- _ _____ Beard, Charlea and Mary, Study of Amer- ican Revolution. — _ __ _ _ Bedford, E. T , on John D Rockefeller Beer, William, and Mark Hanna. _ _ Beethoven

Erotic internet* of

Experience pattern of _ _ ~ -

Social atupidity of .222,

Subnormal muacular dexterity of _ _.

Superior integration of-

Behavior! am, Koehler'* critiaam of_ _ Belloc, Hilaire

On llnguiatic atupidity...

Bennett, Arnold, on Engliah peaaant _ Beneon, Dr Charlea, Study of maladjuated

Berena, Dr Conrad, Examination of Clar- ence Chamberlain.

Beat Mind*, New fr eedom of

Biblical reference* to atupidity

Big Buaineaa, began in Rome.

And fanatiozm, Prevalence of

Biographiea, Incomplete analyai* In. — .

Biological approach to atupidity _

And lack of organization leading to

•tupidity _

Interpretation! of atupidity through Birth control

Fought by Muaaolini _ _ ™

Riling aexuality and _

Salvation through. _ _ _

Birth rate, Future in America.

Biamarck on the Bavarian _ _ 309,

Bjirnaon on Scandinavian peaaant _ _

Bleek’a itudie* of Bantu _ _ - _ __

Blue Ridge Mountaineer!, Culture of _ _ BIQntachli on the State aa an organiam _ Boat, Franz, on language and culture Bogart, Erneat L., Eatimatea of coat of

Bonaparte, Napoleon (See Napoleon) Bond defaulti in United States _ _ _ Boo Ida teata of language _ ______ „

In Florid*

Quacka thriving in _______

Ban, Sam, on atupidity of cotton farmer „ Boiwell on Dr Johnaon. _______

Bradford, Gamaliel, on Charlea Sum-

Brain, Perception orgamzed bj ptical ce

Brazil atopa caab payment of debts — Breaated, Jamea H , on Roman religion. Breeding, Stupidu

504

BnOah, Stupidity of (See alao England)

And the Amencan colonies _ _ _ 408

In Dardanelles _ _ _ — 484

Brodie, Bernard, Study of atudent failure! 45J

Brook a, C E. P , Climate atudie* of _ _ 53

Broun, Heywood, Letter on_ _ _ 373

Brueckner, E_ Climate atudie* of 53

Bruemng, the intelligent deapot 514

Brutua, the money-lender 392

Bryan, Wiliam Jenninga, at Scopea

Trial __ 223, 224

Bucke, Dr R, M, on Walt Whitman-. _ 248

Buckle, G E., quoting Queen Victoria 243

Buddha, Gautama

And the Cardinal Sin of atupidity 48, 499

Appeal aer of atupidity 22, 25

Burke, Edmund, in American Revolution 410

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INDEX

Murr, Ench, Experiment! of on eye len-

Related to language — 145

Revealed in Chinese language 1*4

Train of >*4

Murray, Archibald, MUjudgment of Gal- lium of - — — - - -• • - — 35*

Merrick, George, in Florida boom- - — 437 Mexican*, Inertia of 313

Dictum of May, 19J1 262

Meynell, Everard, on Frandi Thompwn

214, 216, 217, 21S Miami. Florida, boom ... 4S6

Italian textbooks of — 11, 261

Michel, General, in World War _ - _ 406

vnrfdi. a_ Omhnt. In 91

Stupidity of 262, 514

Mvonla. British Kingdom of the Blind. _ 415