¶ Fuller, R.B.: His Admission of Error
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Both Hugh Kenner and this professor at Stanford have pointed out my mistake in dating the publication and recognition of Malthus’s work. I will write them both and thank them. But I have already made the first amends of public admission of my error at a great university-- when I opened my talk yesterday at Harvard, at the Faculty Club, telling them that I have been wrong about the dates.
First of all I welcome corrections. But at Fortune I got into the habit of being casual about dates because we always had researchers to check everything. I talked to the head of the East India Company studies about this. Even though Malthus didn’t get his degree till later, he had access to all the facts and figures. And the people around him recognized that his first surmise-- about population-- was so valid that he really had earned his professorship, long before it was actually awarded. As far as that date goes. . . . It is a part of my personal discipline to make a public acknowledgement of my errors. It’s not a question of excusing myself. There’s no vacuum in Universe about this: your face is what it is. The welcoming of attention to error is of the greatest importance.
