Allen Esterson wrote:
> As an over-50 [over-60, actually, but who's counting? Anyway, like most
> people, I also look young for my age :-) ], I quite agree! On February 22
> I posted what I though was an informative excerpt from Charles Mackay's
> chapter on animal magnetism, mesmerism, suggestion and placebo effects,
> thinking that the fact that someone could be writing in 1841 with far more
> insight than many a commentator nowadays was of some interest, and was
> disappointed that it got not a peep of a response from TIPSters.
As a barely-under-50, I've come to consider the 1940s "recent past", the
1900s "not too distant past" and the 1860s "a recent historical era". But
the 1840s are still "ancient history", and I find myself suspicious about
whether I could even understand the writings of people from a period that
early in our evolution.
Seriously, I didn't respond to that post, but you can bet that I read it
with great interest. Your mistake was mentioning in the post a site that
specializes in out-of-print books. Needless to say instead of responding to
your post, I spent an hour trying to find certain gems (in particular, a
reasonably priced copy of Nisbitt and Ross' "Human Inference: Strategies and
Shortcomings of Social Judgment").
Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
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