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Excerpt from University of California Publications in Education, Vol. 5 I have seen many men locating veins of water in the earth by means of a forked stick, and recently I came across a new book on Water Witching, written by two Englishmen. And com mended by men of high scientific authority, if we may believe the publishers. The authors are apparently intelligent men and make a show of scientific treatment of their subject. But when these and others of their belief insist that it won't work save for a favored few, we can feel pretty sure that there is a dan gerons error somewhere. Generally speaking, men are more loth to express their superstitious faith than are women. But this does not necessarily argue that the latter have more of it to express. I believe it is not far from the truth to say that if women were given the same practical experience in life as men. And if they were so conditioned as to acquire an equal breadth and variety of experience, what now seems to some as such a wide and funda mental difference in this regard would be greatly lessened. When we recall that a student1 of education discovered a few years ago, in the office of a broker, more than half a million of letters, which had been written chiefly by young men to quack doctors for advice and treatment, we realize something of the potency of emotional suggestion, and the willingness of our men to believe in spite of knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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