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than ours is needed for the fashioning of our lives and Character. But all these complications of hereditary characteristics make up the first growth of our prejudices. We are born prejudiced. Then what of after life. Think of the multitude of circumstances which lend their influence to the moulding of our beliefs. Socrates once said concerning prejudice. that "there is no one who has not grown up under a load of beliefs - beliefs which he owes to the accidents of Country and family, to the books he has read, to the Society he has frequented, & to the Education he has received." and "through these as through a prism he views and judges the objects of knowledge." The process of education may in fact be like giving the plant light and air, but many times it is more like the process