Miles Menander Dawson

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled

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Born	1863-05-13
Died	1942

Proponent of compulsory insurance. Was a member of the American Association for Labor Legislation for “social insurance”. He also wrote new age ethics books: “The Wisdom of Confucius”, “The Ethics of Confucius”, “The Ethics of Socrates”, and “The Ethical Religion of Zoroaster”. Dawson was also a Consulting Actuary, Member of the New York Bar, Joint Author, Workingmen's Insurance in Europe.

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32° of Freemasonry 1942

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F. and A. Mason 32°

Of these the most influential is what is called "education." Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part. What is essential in mass psychology is the art of persuasion. If you compare a speech of Hitler's with a speech of Edmund Burke, you will see what strides have been made in the art since the eighteenth century. What went wrong formerly was that people had read in books that man is a rational animal, and framed their arguments on this hypothesis. We now know that limelight and a brass band do more to persuade than can be done by the most elegant train of syllogisms. It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if the can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.
-Bertrand Russell