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majority of mankind are naturally optimistic. Now the majority of every race depart but little from the norm of that race. My second reason is that there are two types of pessimists. The more prominent of these, that to which the famous pessimi[s]ts belong, is shown to be abnormal by Crude Induction. No good judge can consider the conduct of Voltaire, Schopenhauer, and their kin as that of perfectly sane persons.

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