Fear and Phobias As Innate or Learnt
Critics have questioned the proposed innateness of certain phobias.
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Too busied with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.”
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O’er all the Italian fields where still doth sway
The triple tyrant; that from these may grow
A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way,
Early may fly the Babylonian woe.”
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