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Mr Houghton thought with his neck.
霍頓先生是用他的脖子在思考。
This was my introduction to the nature of what is commonly called thought. Through him I discovered that thought is often full of unconscious prejudice, ignorance and hypocrisy. It will lecture on disinterested purity while its neck is being remorselessly twisted toward a skirt. Technically, it is about as proficient as most businessmen's golf, as honest as most politicians' intentions, or as coherent as most books that get written. It is what I came to call grade-three thinking, though more properly, it is feeling, rather than thought.
這就是我對人們通常稱之為思考的本質的最初體驗。透過霍頓先生，我發現思考經常充斥著無意識的偏見、無知和虛偽。這類思考者會一邊滔滔不絕于清心寡欲的純潔，而他們的脖子卻不依不饒地扭向外面的短裙。嚴格地說，他脖子的動作就和大多數生意人打高爾夫一樣地熟練，就和大多數政客的用意一樣的誠實，就像大多數的圖書一樣條理清楚。我把這稱為第三級思考，然而，更為準確地說是感覺，而非思考。
True, often there is a kind of innocence in prejudices, but in those days I viewed grade-three thinking with contempt and mockery. I delighted to confront a pious lady who hated the Germans with the proposition that we should love our enemies. She taught me a great truth in dealing with grade-three thinkers; because of her, I no longer dismiss lightly a mental process which for nine tenths of the population is the nearest they will ever get to thought. They have immense solidarity. We had better respect them, for we are outnumbered and surrounded. A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.
誠然，偏見里也常包含有一種天真無邪，但在那時，我是用一種輕蔑和嘲笑的態度來對待第三級思考的。我很高興能當面向一位虔誠的卻仇恨德國人的女士指出《圣經》主張我們應該熱愛敵人。她讓我明白了一個在同第三級思考者打交道時的真理；因為她，我不再輕易放棄第三級的思考過程，而那對十分之九的人來說是他們所能達到的最接近思考的程度。他們驚人的團結。我們最好尊重他們，因為他們的人數超過了我們，我們被他們包圍著。這許許多多的第三級思考者們擁有相同的口號，就像在爐火上烤手一樣，因為彼此擁有相同的偏見而感到快樂和滿足，但并不會因為你指出了他們的信仰中的矛盾之處而感謝你。人類喜歡彼此意見統一，就像牛群會以同樣的方式在山坡上吃草一樣。
