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The Trees of Pride

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The Trees of Pride	comment	The Trees of Pride is a 1922 novella by G. K. Chesterton.The story is in the public domain and can be read here.
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The Trees of Pride / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
The Trees of Pride / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: The Doctor accuses Ashe and the Squire of this at the climax. As he points out, they generally treat the peasantry as rational. They trust them to do their jobs competently, and they would even have hung Doctor Brown on their evidence. Yet on the one matter of the peacock trees, they give no weight to the peasant's testimony.
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The Trees of Pride / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
The Trees of Pride / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: When he is forced to provide evidence to fake the Squire's death in order that Barbara might inherit and destroy the peacock trees, Doctor Brown is careful to include multiple details that will ultimately cause the crime to be traced back to him. While he knew that he could at need simply explain what had truly happened and produce the Squire alive and well, as he did at the book's climax, he didn't want to run the risk that someone else might be hung for a murder that had never been committed.
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The Trees of Pride / int_4918b32a	type	Scully Syndrome
The Trees of Pride / int_4918b32a	comment	Scully Syndrome: One of Squire Vane's defining traits is an absolute and categorical rejection of anything that is presented to him in the form of a popular legend. It did not matter how much evidence and how many cases Doctor Brown could provide to show the peacock trees to be poisonous; there was a legend that the trees were poisonous and therefore, in the Squire's mind, the trees could not possibly be poisonous.
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The Trees of Pride / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
The Trees of Pride / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Deconstructed by Doctor Brown in his Motive Rant.
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The Trees of Pride / int_75979171	type	The Cuckoolander Was Right
The Trees of Pride / int_75979171	comment	The Cuckoolander Was Right: Defied by Squire Vane, whose particular strain of Scully Syndrome compels him to dismiss utterly anything which has been presented to him in the form of a popular legend, no matter how much supporting evidence it may have.
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The Trees of Pride / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Trees of Pride / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Discussed by the Doctor at the book's climax. While his researches have all but conclusively shown that the peacock trees were doing something to cause the fevers that ravaged the neighborhood, he was never able to establish the exact mechanism by which they did so. His suspicion was that the fevers were some kind of allergic reaction to the pollen of the peacock trees, but for all he could actually prove, they could be the result of a literal Curse upon the trees.
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The Trees of Pride / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
The Trees of Pride / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Squire Vane is noted In-Universe as an example of this trope, in that something in his psychological makeup causes his atheism to manifest itself in a particularly argumentative and combative fashion. He is contrasted with Doctor Brown, who is willing to accept that a popular legend may actually be true if that is what the evidence seems to show.
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The Trees of Pride	hasFeature	Damned By a Fool's Praise / int_1e5f18e0
The Trees of Pride	hasFeature	English Literature / int_1e5f18e0
The Trees of Pride	hasFeature	Framing the Guilty Party / int_1e5f18e0
The Trees of Pride	hasFeature	Hollywood Atheist / int_1e5f18e0
The Trees of Pride	hasFeature	Scully Syndrome / int_1e5f18e0

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