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Another undesirable form of humbug is to treat inanimate objects as if they were alive. Nurses sometimes teach children, when they have hurt themselves by bumping into a chair or table, to smack the offending object and say, "naughty chair ", or' " naughty table ". This removes a most useful source of natural discipline.
Source: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, by Bertrand Russell
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