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Letter: Unreasonable point

Published 23 November 2011

From Donald Windsor

Writer George Bernard Shaw would have loved Kate Ravilious’s recent look at the evolutionary status of mental illness (5 November, p 34), as it supports his famous contention: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Taken from Shaw’s Maxims for Revolutionists (1903).

Norwich, New York, US

Issue no. 2840 published 26 November 2011

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