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...through Delegate Warren Austin, explained that under its Constitution people can speak good or evil, truth or falsehood. Warmongers and peacemongers had free rein, and throughout U.S. history, especially recent U.S. history, the peacemongers won the arguments. The New York Times said: "What is the real cause of uncertainty in the world today? Is it words or is it deeds? We think it is deeds...
...life of man will run in four cycles. The last is to be the Age of Kali. It closes in, says the book, when "society reaches a stage where property confers rank, wealth, becomes the only source of virtue, passion, the sole bond of union between husband and wife, falsehood the source of success in life, sex the only means of enjoyment, and when outer trappings are confused with inner religion...
...that he is a child of God and won't tell lies!" One witness thought he knew what was wanted; he put hand to forehead and intoned: "Heaven is above and earth below. May my conscience be relied upon!" Did a witness know the difference between truth and falsehood? the court wanted to know. When phrased in literary Chinese, this seemed a question for Kant or Confucius. The witness said "No." Did he know the difference between right and wrong? "Oh, naturally," said the relieved Chinese...
Like many another thinker, Poet John Milton was everlastingly confident that if truth and falsehood were to grapple in free and open encounter, "who ever knew Truth put to the worse?" Last week, 300 years further on in the unending conflict, the question whether truth and falsehood should meet in free and open encounter was still an issue...
...Philip Wylies, the Cassandras, the Twentieth Century prophets of doom ceaselessly cry out in the wilderness of materialism. And well might they wail, for the instances of greed, ignorance, needless poverty, waste, hunger, violence, falsehood, hypocrisy, and half-truth are so plentiful that merely to enumerate them would be a Sisyphean labor. But the black gulf of pessimism is not the place to seek the understanding, the patience, the faith that is required by a generation that hopes to bequeathe a world at least somewhat better than one to inherited. Things as they are appear much less disheartening if viewed...