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Generally the most powerful of these formative influences are the suggestions which he receives and accepts from his environment. Parents, family, country, and race have acted upon him since his infancy, always openly and often subtly. They have imposed their own traditional ideas, to which he has unconsciously fallen victim unless he is one of the few who have had sufficient independence to think for themselves.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 15 : Illuminations > # 85