It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a conclusion usually come to by those whose experience has been limited to their limited to their own country.
 René Descartes, Discourse on the Method (1637). copy citation

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Author René Descartes
Source Discourse on the Method
Topic experience judgement custom
Date 1637
Language English
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