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Prejudices must be removed by outside influences or not at all.
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“Prejudices must be removed by outside influences or not at all.”

Mark Twain

Source
What Is Man?
Date
1906
Local voice
Dialogue speaker · Old Man
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Meaning of “Prejudices must be removed by outside influences or…”

The Old Man argues that entrenched assumptions change through encounters, teaching, experience, and other influences rather than simply disappearing by private command.

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What Is Man?, opening dialogue between the Old Man and Young Man; this sentence belongs to the Old Man’s deterministic argument about education and outside influence.

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What Is Man?, opening dialogue between the Old Man and Young Man; this sentence belongs to the Old Man’s deterministic argument about education and outside influence.

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