nonliterate is not that he isn’t logical, but that he applies 
     logic too often, many times on the basis of insufficient 
     premises.
          He generally assumes that events which are 
     associated together are causally connected. But this is a 
     fallacy which the majority of civilized people commit most 
     of the time, and it has been known to happen among 
     trained scientists! Nonliterates tend to adhere too rigidly 
     to the rule of association as causation, but most of the 
     time it works, and by the pragmatic rule what works is 
     taken to be true.
          Nothing could be further from the truth than the 
     idea that nonliterates are utterly credulous, superstition- 
     and fear-ridden creatures, without any capacity or 
     opportunity for independent and original thought. In 
     addition to good horse sense, the nonliterate usually