Excerpts from M. Scott Peck’s book, “The Road Less Traveled” from the second chapter, titled “love.”
Dr. Morgan Scott Peck was born in New York, 1936. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy but was expelled ]for refusing to attend mandatory R.O.T.C. sessions. He transferred to Harvard, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1958, and he received a medical degree in 1963 from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Dr. Peck is among the founding fathers of the self-help genre of books. “The Road Less Traveled,” published in 1978, and its later companion volumes have sold more than 5 million copies in North America and have been translated into more than 20 languages.