If, in spite of all that has been said and written against intemperance, and in spite of all that has been done to suppress it, there are still drunkards galore, we have to recognise the existence of a force that makes for intemperance and overbalances contrary forces. We are not denying that reasonings and sermons may have their influence on people. We do assert that their influence is not the exclusive or in many cases , the preponderant influence; that they are not the only elements which determine human conduct; that other elements intervene, elements not belonging to the categories of reasoning and sermons, or of derivations either. -- Vilfredo Pareto, The Mind and Society, Par. 1937
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