The-Conquest-of-Happiness-by-Bertrand-Russell

obtain hardly any publicity for his discovery, and
the most apparently high-minded men refuse to lift
a finger to remedy the evil which fills him with
indignation. So far the facts are as he says they are.
But his rebuffs have made such an impression upon
him that he believes an powerful men to be
occupied wholly and solely in covering up the
crimes to which they owe their power. Cases of
this kind are particularly obstinate, owing to the
partial truth of their outlook; the thing that has
touched them personally has made, as is natural,
more impression upon them than the much larger
number of matters of which they have had no direct
experience. This gives them a wrong sense of
proportion, and causes them to attach undue
importance to facts which are perhaps exceptional
rather than typical.
Another not uncommon victim of persecution
mania is a certain type of philanthropist who is
always doing good to people against their will,
and is amazed and horrified that they display no
gratitude. Our motives in doing good are seldom as