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According to “The Genesis Of A Scientific Fact”—”The greatest error of individualistic psychology is the assumption that a person thinks. This leads to a continual search for the source of thought within the individual himself and for the reasons why he thinks in a particular way and not in any other. What actually thinks within a person is not the individual himself but his social community. The source of his thinking is not within himself but is to be found in his social environment and in the very social atmosphere he ‘breathes.’ His mind is structured, and necessarily so, under the influence of this ever-present social environment, and he cannot think in any other way."
One western educator said, giving an illustration, he said, Robinson Crusoe, said, that that man, though he was on an island by himself. Didn't have his nation, didn't have anything. Evenso, the study of his life while he was on that island was still the study of an Englishman. ….. He will speak the language that he learned in a community of people. He will have the emotional responses that he learned or got from a community of people. ….. Well, that's important......Your individual, private life is a community, because you have in your private life the reality of the community that you belong to. You cannot think privately without using the material that you got from the community that you belong to." Notes from lecture of Imam W. Deen Mohammed in Cincinnati, Ohio - May 5, 1996 University of Cincinnati - Zimmer Hall