CLASSIFICATION OF LIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 201, 4 May 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

CLASSIFICATION OF LIES.

A PROFESSOR'S EXPLANATIONS. All different kinds of lies have been analysed and classified by Dr Allen IToben, Professor of Sociology in the University of Chicago. He enumerates them as follows: — The fantasy of fairy tale lie. The vainglorious or boasting lie. The defensive lie. The heroic lie. The white, or permissible, lie. The society lie. The business lie. The professional lie. The art lie. The adulterative lie. •'The fantasy or fairy tale lie." says Professor IToben, "is that which the young child invents from his or her imagination. There is practically no moral quality in very young children. "The vainglorious or boasting lie is that by which the child constantly exairoerates things done. '•The defensive lie is induced by fear. "Tli; heroic lie is that which is told by one wishing to save another from punishment by avowing faults he has not committed. ••The white lie is usually told by conscientious and even religious people, and consists in hiding the truth while appearin <r to (ell it. "The society lie is the most frequent. We all know it. It is increasing. "The business lie has a thousand forms, which many know, to their sorrow. "Any lawyer or physician can deime the professional lie. "The art lie is best understood by lici-r who palm oil' newly-manufactured near-art on wealth'.- amateur*. "The mo-t injurious is the adulterative lie. which results in giving us oleomargarine for butter, red ink for wine, wool alcohol for whisky, and cottonseed oil for olive oil."