[15] _The Conduct of the Understanding._ [16] _On Thinking for Oneself._ [17] This may seem unjustified. Witness, however, this remarkable statement in a prospectus of Charles Eliot’s “Five Foot Shelf”: “ . . . The man who has not read the ‘Wealth of Nations’ is hardly qualified to speak or even think wisely on these vital subjects.” If this be true, Adam Smith himself was hardly qualified because he certainly could not have read his own book before he had written it! [18] Essay _On Thinking for Oneself_. [19] _Autobiography._ [20] Edward Griggs, _The Use of the Margin_. [21] _Literary Taste._ [22] The most advanced and severe psychologists may object to some statements in this exposition. I admit that a word may be used as the concept, _but only provided it is accompanied by a “fringe” of potential associates_. I also admit that in order to be dealt with as if general, the visual image must be accompanied by such a “fringe.” But I do insist that this fringe itself is in a constant state of flux. That is the important point for our present purposes. [23] _Literary Taste._ [24] And consult Arnold Bennett’s _How to Live on 24 Hours a Day_. [25] _Talks to Teachers._ THE END TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: Original spelling and grammar have been generally retained. Original small caps are now uppercase. Italics look _like this_. Footnotes have been relabeled 1–25 and moved to the end of the book. The transcriber produced the cover image and hereby assigns it to the public domain. Original page images are available from archive.org—search for “cu31924031014867”. End of Project Gutenberg's Thinking as a Science, by Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993)